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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2, by Various
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+Title: The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2
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+Author: Various
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+Editor: Alfred Henry Lewis
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+Release Date: September 11, 2005 [EBook #16680]
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+=The
+Onlooker=
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+Alfred Henry Lewis
+Editor
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+Vol. I
+NEW YORK, MAY 28, 1902
+Part 2
+
+[Illustration]
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+    "Sir Oliver, we live in a dammed wicked world, and the fewer
+    we praise the better."
+
+                         --Sir Peter Teazle.
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+CONTENTS
+
+
+THE CASUAL CLUB
+
+  Tammany and Its Missing Funds--Mr.
+  Nixon and his Failure--Mr. Carroll's
+  Troubles with Mr. Croker--The Latter
+  Gone for Good
+
+POETRY
+
+AS YOU LIKE IT            Fielders
+
+  Who Loves a Lord?--Killing for
+  Futurity--Mistake in Vocation--Foreign
+  Devils Again--Heaven or Hell--Adam
+  a Myth--Hurrah for Noah--Callow
+  Judgment--Champagne and "Champagne"
+
+THE PLAY                  Jaques
+
+LADY BETTY'S COMMENT      Betty Stair
+
+DRIFT OF THE DAY          Skirving
+
+THAT SMUGGLED SILK        By the Old Lobbyist
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+=The Onlooker=
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+Vol. I     MAY 28, 1902     Part 2
+
+
+
+
+=The Casual Club=
+
+
+On last Thursday evening the Casual Club was gathered about a corner
+table in Sherry's. The great room was beautiful, the music brilliant,
+the setting and table appointments magnificent, and the dinner all
+that might be asked. There came but one thing to grieve the tempers of
+our members--the service was slip-shod, inattentive, vile. One wonders
+that so splendid an arrangement should be left unguarded in the most
+important particular of service; that Sherry, when he has done so
+much, should permit himself to be foiled of a last result by an idle
+carelessness of waiters, who if they do not forget one's orders
+outright, execute them with all imaginable sloth. They attend on
+guests as though the latter were pensioners, and are listless in
+everything save a collection of the gratuity, personal to themselves,
+which their avarice and a public's weakness have educated them to
+expect.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Clams had occurred, and while we were discussing these small
+sea-monsters, Fatfloat broke suddenly forth. "I don't know if it be a
+subject for self-gratulation or no, but I observed that the daily
+papers took quick note of my statement that Tammany Hall was looted of
+its last shilling. For the guidance of these energetic folk of ink and
+types, I will unfold a further huddle of details. Instead of nine
+hundred thousand dollars, there were more than one million collected
+for the Tammany campaign. No one can show where so much as two hundred
+thousand dollars were honestly disbursed. Let me tell a story; it may
+suggest an idea to our diligent friends of the Dailies. There is a
+rotund, porpoise-shaped globular gentleman known of these parts as
+'Bim the Button Man.' This personage went into the printing business
+at the beginning of the late campaign and went out of it--like blowing
+out a candle--at the close. Bim the Button Man, for his brief parade
+as a printer, took a partner. Or perhaps the partner took Mr. Bim. The
+partner was and is a doughty 'leader.' It was the new-made firm of
+'Bim' that flourished in the production of those posters and
+lithographs of Mr. Shepard which for so long disfigured the town. Mr.
+Mitchell, printer, complained bitterly over this invasion of his
+rights by Mr. Bim. The latter snapped pudgy fingers at the querulous
+Mr. Mitchell by virtue of his powerful partner. Who was Mr. Bim's
+partner? One year before when Mr. Mitchell's bill was seven thousand
+dollars, Mr. Croker, being in a frugal mood, felt excessively pained.
+Why then should it mount last autumn to three hundred thousand dollars
+and excite neither grief nor reproach? And what was got for those
+three hundred thousand dollars? When a show leaves New York, it
+carries posters wherewith to embellish each fence and bill board in
+the land; and yet no show ever paid more than ten thousand dollars for
+paper. Five thousand dollars will cover every possible coign of
+bill-sticking advantage and hang, besides, a lithograph of Mr. Shepard
+in every window in the city of New York. Then wherefore those three
+hundred thousand dollars of Tammany? There be folk on the finance
+committee who should go into this business with a lantern. The most
+hopeful name of these is Mr. McDonald, our great subway contractor
+and partner of Mr. August Belmont; he is a member of that committee.
+He is, too, a gentleman of intelligence, business habits and high
+worth. Mr. McDonald of the subway, for his own credit and that of Mr.
+Belmont, his partner, should never sleep until he turned out the
+bottom facts of that Tammany treasure which has disappeared. Nor
+should a common interest with Mr. Croker and certain of that
+gentleman's retainers in the Port Chester railway deter him. Is there
+no honest man in Athens?"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+It was at the close of the repast and when cigars were smokily going
+that Vacuum returned to the subject of Tammany Hall.
+
+"Let me congratulate you, my dear Enfield," observed Vacuum
+courteously, "on your genius for prophecy. At our last meeting, you
+foretold the near overthrow of Mr. Nixon and the Croker regime. The
+papers inform me that all came to pass within the two days following
+your warning."
+
+"Yes," said Lemon sarcastically, taking the words from Enfield, "we
+have been visited with that fell calamity, the collapse of Mr. Croker
+and his rule. We have seen the black last of him, and the very name
+of Croker already begins to be a memory. But why should one repine?"
+Lemon's sneer was deepening. "In every age the other great have come
+and ruled and gone to that oblivion beyond. They arose to fall and be
+forgot. It is the law. Then why not Mr. Croker? True, even while we
+consent, there comes that natural sadness which I now observe to
+sparkle so brightly in every present eye. What then? We console
+ourselves as did Chief Justice Crewe full two centuries and a half ago
+when the decadence of De Vere claimed consideration. 'I have labored,'
+quoth Crewe, who if that be possible was more moved over the waning of
+De Vere than am I concerning the passing of Mr. Croker, 'I have
+labored to make a covenant with myself that affection may not press
+upon judgment; for I suppose there is no man that hath any
+apprehension of gentry or nobleness but his affection stands to the
+continuance of a house so illustrious and would take hold on a twig or
+a twinethread to support it. And yet Time hath his revolutions; there
+must be a period and an end to all temporal things--finis rerum--an
+end of names and dignities and whatsoever is terrene; and why not of
+De Vere? For where is Bohun? where is Mowbray? where is Mortimer?
+nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagenet? They are
+entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality!' And, as it was of
+that ancient day of Crewe and the De Vere so must it be of us and Mr.
+Croker. He goes; we stay; and so let us drink to all." Here Lemon
+filled his glass, and the rest having amiably followed his example,
+offered with a wicked twinkle, "The disappearance of Mr. Croker!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"What I regret in the business," remarked Fatfloat as he put down his
+glass, "is the ill fortune of Mr. Nixon. There is much of good honesty
+about that gentleman; he is high-minded and proud; I cannot but
+sympathize with him in his present plight."
+
+"And yet," observed Enfield, mildly, "Mr. Nixon should have avoided
+that trap of an empty leadership. Mr. Nixon is no stripling; he knew
+Tammany and those elements of mendacity and muddy intrigue which are
+called its 'control'; he knew Mr. Croker, who in these last days was
+faithful to no promise and loyal to no man. Why did he permit himself
+to be flattered, cozened and destroyed? Why? He added inexperience to
+vanity and betrayed himself. It was the old story--the conference of
+that leadership on Mr. Nixon--the old story of the Wolf and Little Red
+Riding Hood, with Mr. Croker as Wolf and Mr. Nixon the innocent who
+was eaten up. No, no; he might have better guided himself. Mr.
+Nixon--were all about the friendliest--was still unfit for the place.
+It was like putting a horse in a tree-top; it gave the horse no grace
+nor glory and offered a sole assurance of his finally falling out."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Isn't Mr. Nixon himself an honest man?" asked Van Addle.
+
+"Were it to be merely a question of honesty," replied Enfield, "Mr.
+Nixon would make perfect answer. Broadly, he is an honest man. But
+that, politically, is all. And there be enterprises, such as Tammany
+Hall and the Stock Market, wherein to be merely honest is not a
+complete equipment. Moreover, in this business of his so-called
+'leadership,' Mr. Nixon might have carried himself with a more
+sensitive integrity and been bettered vastly thereby. You will recall
+that when Mr. Nixon performed as chairman of the Tammany anti-vice
+committee, he discovered in its entire membership that combine of
+blackmail and extortion which, standing at the head of Tammany and
+doing its foul work through the police, fostered crime in the
+community for a round return of four millions a year. Mr. Nixon called
+these evil folk by name and pointed to them. He could still relate
+that roll and never miss an individual. And if he did not put actual
+hand on the sly presiding genius, I warrant you he might, were he so
+inclined, indite a letter to him and get the address right."
+
+"And the postage would be five cents," interjected Lemon.
+
+"With this knowledge," continued Enfield without heeding Lemon's
+interruption, "and with his record as a foe of corruption, Mr. Nixon,
+had he been wise as a captain, or true to himself as a man, would have
+called about him the cleaner elements. He would have reminded them of
+the people's verdict of November and told them plainly that the rogues
+must go. He should have been loyal to himself. He should have made the
+issue against the corruptionists; he should have waged prompt and
+bitter war, and either destroyed them or died like a soldier high up
+on the ramparts. Mr. Nixon would have then become a martyr or a hero;
+and between the two there after all goes flowing no mighty
+difference. A martyr is a hero who failed; a hero is a martyr who
+succeeded; both gain the veneration of a people, and die or live
+secure of self-respect. Mr. Nixon should have uplifted the standards
+of a new crusade against that handful of great robbers who, making
+Tammany their stronghold, issued forth to a rapine of the town. Nor,
+had he done so, would he have fallen in the battle. As I have already
+said, nineteen of every Tammany twenty would have come round him for
+that fight. He would have conquered a true leadership and advanced a
+public interest while upbuilding his party. Mr. Nixon, however, failed
+tamely in the very arms of opportunity. He kept to the same ignoble
+counsel that had so wrought disrepute for Mr. Croker. And, afar from
+thoughts of assailing those who had dragged Tammany Hall through mire
+to achieve their villain ends, he went openly into their districts,
+commended them to the voters, hailed them as his friends and urged
+their retention in the executive board. Is it marvel, then, that Mr.
+Nixon as a 'leader' took no root? or that by the earliest gust of
+opposition he was overblown? It could not have come otherwise; he
+fairly threw himself beneath the wheels of Fate."
+
+"As to the future of Tammany Hall," said Vacuum, "will Mr. Croker
+make further effort to dominate it and send it orders from abroad?"
+
+"Undoubtedly," returned Enfield, to whom the query was put, "Mr.
+Croker will strive in all ways to prolong himself. It is with him both
+a matter of money and a matter of pride. But he will fail; his whilom
+follower, Mr. Carroll, is too powerful. Mr. Carroll is in possession
+and will yield only to Mr. Martin,--that inveterate foe of Mr.
+Croker."
+
+"Do you know why Mr. Croker attacked Mr. Carroll just before he left?"
+asked Vacuum "and ordered his destruction? One morning, he was taken
+by Mr. Fox to view Mr. Carroll's building operations near Fifth Avenue
+in Fifty-seventh Street. Mr. Fox called attention to the grandeur of
+Mr. Carroll's plans. The workmen were tearing down a house to make
+room for Mr. Carroll's coming palace. Mr. Croker gazed for full ten
+minutes in wordless, moody gloom. Then turning to the sympathetic Mr.
+Fox he broke forth: 'What do you think of that? He's tearing down a
+better house than mine!' From that moment Mr. Croker went about the
+tearing down of Mr. Carroll."
+
+"I had not supposed him so small," said Fatfloat, "as to feel piqued
+because Mr. Carroll would build a better house than his own."
+
+"He didn't feel piqued," said Lemon; "he felt plundered, and doubtless
+asked a question concerning Mr. Carroll that has been so often asked
+about himself."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"And yet," observed Van Addle, appealing to Enfield, "I should love
+prodigiously to hear your views on the situation in Tammany as it
+stands. I confess both an ignorance and a curiosity for light."
+
+"And I am sure, my dear Van Addle," returned Enfield, "you are
+heartily welcome to aught I may know or believe on the subject. A
+great noble of Rome observed that to direct a wanderer aright was like
+lighting another man's candle with one's own; it assisted the fortunes
+of the beneficiary without subtracting from the estate of the
+Samaritan. For myself, I need neither the Roman argument nor the Roman
+example to create within me a benevolent willingness to hang a lantern
+in the tower of truth for the guidance of any gentleman now groping as
+to the actual status of Mr. Croker with Tammany Hall.
+
+"It requires no word to those initiate to convince them that Mr.
+Croker no longer sits on the throne, and that his potentialities are
+forever departed away. For myself, grown too indolent for an interest
+in aught beyond the sentimentalities of politics, I sorrow that this
+is so. Indifference is ever conservative and hesitates at change; and,
+speaking for what is within myself and not at all perhaps for that
+which is best for the public, I would have preferred a continuation of
+the Croker dynasty. As it is, good sooth! Mr. Croker is destroyed. And
+your ruin, of whatever character, the resort of owls, the habitat of
+bats, and all across it flung the melancholy ivy--that verdant banner
+of victorious decay!--is, at its loveliest, but a spectacle of
+depression; and one who has witnessed Mr. Croker in his vigor must be
+at least dimly affected as he beholds him take his sad and passive
+place with those who were. Mr. Croker is not to be blamed as the
+architect of his overthrow. With what lights that shone, his conduct
+was prudent enough; and his dethronement is to be charged to
+destiny--to kismet, rather than to any gate-opening carelessness on
+the purblind part of himself. 'Prudentia fato major,' said the
+Florentine. But the Medici was wrong, and before Death bandaged his
+eyes for eternity it was given him to see that Destiny, for all his
+caution and for all his craft, had fed his hopes to defeat. And yet,
+while Mr. Croker may not be charged as the reason of his own removal,
+some consideration of causes that incited it should have a merit and
+an interest. It is one vessel crashing on a reef that points a danger,
+and makes for the safety of every ship that follows, and the story of
+a wrecked and drowned dictatorship cannot fail to instruct ambition in
+whatever field.
+
+"Following the last presidential campaign, Mr. Croker sailed
+Englandward to repose himself from his labors. For ten months did he
+rest, recuperate, restrengthen and restore himself. And when he
+departed, albeit he may have had no suspicion of that fact, Mr. Croker
+left his chieftaincy behind. That was to happen in the nature of
+things, and Mr. Croker would have foreseen it had he been a true
+scientist of supremacy. Remember it, all ye kings and princes and
+potentates among men! a crown will never travel, a scepter cannot
+leave the realm, and there are no wheels on a throne. Mr. Croker was
+not aware of these cardinal truths of kingcraft when he sailed away;
+the knowledge became his at a time too late to have a value beyond the
+speculative. Mr. Croker left the garments of his leadership behind him
+and eighteen of the 'leaders' appropriated them with a plot. They
+caught their chief in bathing and they stole his clothes.
+
+"Mr. Croker was home ten days before he missed his leadership, and
+even then he was made aware of its spoliation only by beholding it in
+the hands of the cabal. Mr. Croker meant Mr. Nixon for the mayoralty;
+but the plotting eighteen, intriguing with Brooklyn blocked the way
+with Mr. Coler. The coalition was too strong for Mr. Croker to force,
+and the logic of that same word pressed to a conflict meant his
+destruction in the city convention.
+
+"'When the lion's skin is too short,' said Lysander, 'we piece it out
+with the fox's,' and while the Greeks thought this sentiment
+unbecoming a descendant of Hercules, they were fain to acquiesce in
+its practice when met by a peril too strong for their spears. Mr.
+Croker remembered Lysander; and, being thus hedged and hemmed about,
+sought safety by nominating Mr. Shepard. There need be no mistake; Mr.
+Shepard was not a candidate, he was a refuge. And such a refuge as is
+Scylla when one is threatened of Charybdis.
+
+"When Mr. Croker seized on Mr. Shepard, he defeated the Coler plot,
+but made no safety for his leadership. He succeeded only in losing the
+latter in a fashion less harrowing to his vanity, less obnoxious to
+his self-respect. It was the old Roman at the last, who, preferring
+suicide to capture, throws himself on his own sword.
+
+"Study the situation as Mr. Croker studied it, following the city
+convention; it will aid to an understanding of what has happened
+since, and tell the story of his lost leadership. Following Mr.
+Shepard's nomination there lived no Croker hope. With either Mr.
+Shepard or Mr. Low elected, Tammany would dwindle--as one now beholds
+it--to be a third-rate influence. The autocracy of Mr. Croker would
+disappear. At the best, he might beg where he had once commanded, with
+every prospect of being denied. Mr. Croker, in alarm for his pride,
+decided that his sole chance to quit with credit was to quit at once,
+and on that thought he acted. Following the naming of Mr. Shepard he
+treated with the plotters and abandoned to them half his dominion. It
+was they, and not Mr. Croker, who determined the personnel of the late
+county and borough tickets; one has but to remember the folk who were
+named, and recall those who were not, to know that this is true. But
+bad fortune overtook Mr. Croker and the eighteen who then held him in
+partial thrall. The city ticket of the one, and the county and borough
+tickets of the others, were beaten."
+
+"They were, of a hopeful verity!" interrupted Fatfloat. "They were
+beaten as flat as a field of turnips! And it was in high good time,
+too. Had Tammany retained the city, before 1904 the outlaws would have
+stolen everything but the back fence."
+
+"They did not keep the city, however," continued Enfield, "and being
+defeated, Mr. Croker developed with much speed an eagerness for
+England. I do not blame him; while outwardly respectful, the leading
+folk of his circle were cheerless and cold, for to be beaten is to be
+hated in Tammany Hall. And so he made pretense of abdication and Mr.
+Nixon appeared in his place. The sequel of that ill-fortuned
+substitution is known.
+
+"Mr. Croker will continue still to hold what Tammany territory he may.
+He has money interests to protect. And yet, strive and plot and battle
+as best he can, it is too late. His day is over and his power lost. He
+will win such consideration and no more, as Mr. Carroll and the
+others grant.
+
+"It is to be doubted if Mr. Croker realizes how prone and dead he is.
+One knows when one is wounded, but one knows not when one is killed.
+Some near day, or some far day, Mr. Croker will seek to return. Then,
+and not until that time, will he comprehend the palsy that has
+stricken his supremacy. Mr. Croker will return only to be denied. And
+that, too, will be as it should; for even a Napoleon comes back but
+once to France."
+
+
+
+
+=No Time Like To-Day=
+
+
+    Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
+        Old Time is still a-flying;
+    And this same flower that smiles to-day,
+        To-morrow will be dying.
+
+    Then be not coy, but use your time,
+      And while ye may, go marry;
+    For having lost but once your prime,
+      You may forever tarry.
+
+                  --Robert Herrick.
+
+
+
+
+=As You Like It=
+
+
+Who Loves a Lord?
+
+The London newspapers give one the impression that a number of English
+people will attend the coronation ceremonies. It is evident that the
+editors of these newspapers do not read journals which are printed in
+New York and other American centers.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Killing for Futurity
+
+When Balmascheff, who shot and killed M. Sipiaguine, Russia's Minister
+of the Interior, was asked if he had accomplices he replied: "So many
+that it is impossible to name them." He also said that he nor they
+expected grace or mercy; that he and they worked for those who came
+after. Some will call this the raving of an anarchist. But these know
+nothing of the conditions against which Balmascheff and his kind are
+warring. The Balmascheffs would prefer to gain their ends by peaceful
+means, but know from experience that life is too short for success.
+They do not kill for love of killing, or the notoriety that attaches
+to it, but that the lot of those whose cause they champion may be made
+merely endurable. Whenever the law is wilfully and successfully
+disregarded that a minority may be favored there will be found a means
+by which this dereliction is brought to the attention not only of the
+lawbreakers, but of the world, and as the latter, in all its
+divisions, contains lawbreakers who consider themselves above or
+beyond the law the punishment of one is usually followed by the
+punishment of others, for lawbreakers of a colossal type--like their
+executioners--think in common and recognize no cleavage of
+nationality. Balmascheff may not have killed the system which was
+represented by M. Sipiaguine, but he chopped away a limb. Unless the
+trunk is replaced by one that better befits the age it, too, will be
+chopped away.
+
+If this be an age of reason, as is claimed for it, men who are
+furnished with a capacity to think cannot be prevented from putting
+their thoughts into execution. Though Balmascheff was executed on
+Friday according to biblical and Russian law, there are many
+Balmascheffs in the world, and it is well for the world that this is
+so.
+
+
+Mistake in Vocation
+
+A woman writer who considers herself a Realist says in a story
+published recently: "I found a letter in my mail and read it as I
+prepared my morning coffee." This is an impossible feat. She may have
+prepared the coffee and then read the letter, or read the letter and
+then prepared the coffee, but she did not do both simultaneously
+unless she were, not a realist, but an acrobat.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Foreign Devils Again
+
+Among the many reforms foisted upon China by the Powers is a college.
+At the head of this college is a Foreign Devil and among its
+professors are six Foreign Devils. The court of last resort, however,
+is the Governor of Shantung, who is a native of China. He, quite
+recently, filled the Foreign Devils with indignation because he
+expelled from the college a student who refused to subscribe to the
+teachings of Confucius, who was a wise as well as a learned man. The
+Foreign Devils transferred some of their indignation to Mr. Conger,
+the United States Minister, who "warned the Throne against infractions
+of the treaties in respect to the freedom of the Chinese to practice
+Christianity." This warning probably filled the Throne with even more
+and hotter indignation than that which seethed in the Foreign Devils.
+Why should Mr. Conger not follow the custom of his own country and
+permit every religion to take care of itself? Here is a case in point.
+A Mr. Noll applied for a license to preach and it was denied to him by
+a Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian brand because he refused to
+believe in the personality of Adam. He would not have carried his case
+to the President even if he had not died. It has been asserted by a
+Minister of another denomination that Noll was murdered, not in the
+orthodox way, but simply because he was refused a license to preach.
+If the murder theory be not untenable Noll was not of the stuff of
+which martyrs are made, and as all Preachers hold that they are made
+of this stuff Noll conferred a favor upon the profession by dying of
+consumption.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Heaven or Hell
+
+Even before Noll died a number of Presbyterian Preachers had announced
+that they considered Adam, Moses, Jonah and other personages of Note
+in Bible literature as Myths. With rare exceptions, there is about as
+little initiative in Professional Preachers as there is in
+Professional Pugilists, and the last sect of which one might have
+expected such iconoclastic utterances is that which claims Calvin and
+John Knox as its shining lights. I remember, as a small boy, feeling
+sorry for a chum because, as a Presbyterian, he did not know and had
+no means of finding out whether he had been born to go to Heaven or
+Hell, and in those days both of those resorts were spelled with
+capitals and pronounced with awe. Had he been able by a most rigorous
+observance of all the rules laid down by God and Man to make certain
+of living in a future state of beatitude I would have felt sorry for
+him still, as he would be compelled, of necessity, to miss many of the
+joys of this world; still his future then--though in a hard and
+grinding measure--would have lain in his own hands. But whether he
+became a Pirate or a Preacher was all one; he had been born to go to
+Heaven or Hell and nothing that he could do could enable him to change
+his final destination. In later life he, evidently, appreciated this,
+for he became a Stock-Broker, after, as a Preacher, having broken most
+of the Commandments and fractured the rest. Had the Dominie of the
+flock of which he was a member expressed a doubt of the existence,
+some years ago, of Adam, Moses or Jonah, but particularly Adam, he
+would have saved my friend from much mental and some physical
+distress.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Adam a Myth
+
+When a hide-bound, moss-grown bigot begets doubts and then removes
+them, he is like a bull in a china shop and wants to break everything
+in sight, not through an innate love of destruction, but because he
+has lost his rope and is too delirious to find the corral. This
+throwing overboard of Adam so suddenly and without any recently
+discovered evidence upon his personality or lack of it, comes in the
+nature of a shock. The act has been perpetrated after the fashion of
+Captain Kidd in his worst days. It shows a complete lack of even a
+faint acquaintance with the small amenities that help to smooth the
+ruts in social intercourse to not only order a personage of Adam's
+standing and reputation to "walk the plank," but to push him off.
+Besides, it shows an utter disregard for the feelings of that large
+body of people who do not think, to wipe out, at one fell wipe, the
+whole scheme of creation without substituting another. If there were
+no Adam there could not have been a Garden of Eden or an Eve. And what
+about the Apple and the Serpent and a lot of other picturesque
+details? Personally, I intend to stick to my belief in Adam, not
+because I ever had a high opinion of him, but because I have met a
+number of men who remind me of him--men who always throw the blame on
+the woman; also because I have seen several spots that would make an
+admirable Eden. Besides, there is something in the story of what
+happened in the Garden that rings true; not that all women would adopt
+Eve's bold method, but much may be forgiven a woman who had no mother
+or maiden aunt to play duenna, and who lived before either was
+fashionable, or, according to the story, necessary.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Hurrah for Noah
+
+But these reverend gentlemen must not go too far. One may regret Adam,
+and his extinction may start fissures in many genealogical trees, but
+to such of us as only "came over in the Mayflower," or "with the
+Conqueror," his flop into oblivion may entail no serious damage to
+existing rights. Upon Moses I always looked as a person of doubtful
+parentage, and a leader who, had he lived in recent centuries, would
+have been sacrificed by his own men within a month at most. His only
+title to fame is that he kept the Jews for forty years from
+appropriating anything but a desert which nobody else wanted and was a
+blistering hindrance to them. The story of Moses certainly has weak
+spots. Too much is known of the localities which he frequented. The
+crossing of the Red Sea without even getting his boots full of water
+seems too lurid an accomplishment for a pedestrian who consumed forty
+years in reaching the confines of an ordinary desert. His
+disappearance will cause but little clamor. Then there is Jonah. Those
+who know the sea, or have a passing acquaintance with fish, place no
+reliance upon the Jonah-whale story. Jonah will not be missed greatly.
+But I must insist upon the preservation of Noah. In him are we all--no
+creed nor color barred--indebted for our first striking and imperfect
+impressions of the animal kingdom. No liar could have invented the
+story of the flood. It is of too wholesale a character for pure
+invention, and the few details which accompany it wear an air of
+truth. Unless it were founded upon fact, could manufacturers all over
+the world have been induced to strengthen it and put money in their
+purse by turning out, annually, not millions but trillions of Noah's
+arks? Once shake the belief of childhood in the stability of Noah and
+ruin will fall upon a great industry, for machinery which will turn
+out a never-ending stream of Noah's arks could not be driven to turn
+out anything else. There is nothing to take the place of Noah's ark,
+as there is no one to take the place of Noah. In other lines trade may
+follow the flag, but in the Noah's ark industry it follows a belief in
+Noah and is known to every flag that has ever waved, paying allegiance
+to no particular banner. Before these fatiguing divines drive even a
+tack into Noah's coffin, let them provide us with a personage of equal
+interest and influence. If they are not permitted to move further in
+their scheme of destruction until they do this, Noah is safe. They can
+only try to kill; they cannot create.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Callow Judgment
+
+Mr. William M. Thomas, United States Minister to Sweden, called upon
+the President lately and made him a present of several Swedish razors.
+A Washington correspondent at once telegraphed to his newspaper in
+New York: "He selected the razors himself and is a fine judge of them
+though he does not use a razor." If the person who sent this important
+dispatch wanted to secure an Old Master he, doubtless, would hire a
+canal boatman to pass judgment upon the painting before he put his
+money down.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Champagne and "Champagne"
+
+It is customary for Americans to think that they get the best of
+everything. There are Americans who _do_ get the best of everything,
+but this is because they know what is best and are able and willing to
+pay for it. But where hoi polloi thinks that it gets the best of
+everything it is mistaken. Take champagne, for instance. "A large
+bottle on the ice" is a common order in New York. To the waiter it
+means a bottle of champagne. He may or may not ask if any particular
+brand is required: that depends upon the quality of the hostelry in
+which he is employed; also upon the quality of the customer. The
+"large bottle" is forthcoming. It contains a label on which is printed
+the maker's name.
+
+The cork which comes out of the bottle is, generally, much larger
+than the neck into which it has been forced. It is seldom that one
+hears a buyer ask to see the cork. The average buyer of champagne
+would not understand the cork's story. He is accustomed to large and
+bulging corks and if he were to see an attenuated specimen, of dark
+complexion and as hard as a piece of vulcanized rubber he would look
+at it with great suspicion and, doubtless, refuse the wine. But an
+experienced waiter will know his man and will bring him the sort of
+"large bottle" to which he has been accustomed, though it will not be
+champagne that a wine drinker would care to swallow. Champagne of the
+"large bottle" variety is drunk to a larger extent in the United
+States than anywhere else; in fact one would not be far wrong in
+saying that it is manufactured for the American market. Generally, the
+best champagne is made for England and Russia. The people of those
+countries who drink champagne have made at least a cursory study of it
+and are able, at a moment's notice, to name the best vintages of the
+last twenty-five or thirty years. There are Americans who can do this,
+too, but they are not of the "large bottle" or "cold bottle" variety.
+The latter are the people who account for the fact that much more
+"champagne" is consumed than is furnished by the vineyards of France.
+
+                         THOMAS B. FIELDERS.
+
+
+
+
+=Drift of the Day=
+
+
+From my station here on the housetop my gaze wanders out over acres of
+roofs--the leaded coverings of hotels, apartment-houses, and office
+buildings. They rear themselves beneath and around me as the lesser
+peaks of the Himalayas seen from Mount Everest. My eyes ache with the
+diversity of their shapes, the eccentricity of their styles, the
+irregularity of their altitudes. No man viewing them can continue
+blind to the independence of the American citizen, to the ostentation
+of his right of personal selection, to his individual caprice. They
+stand, a brick-and-iron commentary upon the competing ambitions of two
+generations of townsmen.
+
+A hulking, twenty-story modernity stands side by side with a dwarfish,
+Dutch anachronism, but neither possesses any right of precedence over
+the other. They are equal in the eyes of the proletary. Classic and
+nondescript, marble and brick, granite and iron, unite to form the
+most heterogeneous collection of fashions the earth's surface anywhere
+exhibits. Even Milton's blind eyes pictured nothing so fantastic as
+this architectural chaos of Manhattan, so hopeless of eventual order.
+And yet are there not lacking signs that the quaint pot-pourri of
+whimsicalities will one day coalesce into a well-defined, artistic
+composition, a twentieth century City Beautiful. God grant its
+attainment be not unduly protracted!
+
+But it is with the insides of this vast confusion of buildings I am
+presently concerned. As the buildings are, so are the
+inhabitants--little and big, tall and short, honestly constructed and
+jerry built, old fashioned and up to date, aping the fashions of a
+dozen civilizations. In any one of these great structures will be
+found the representatives of a dozen nations, born to a dozen tongues,
+yet all conversing in a common English, covering their motley
+nationalities with a common Americanism, united in their loyalty to
+the Republic. In the diversity of its constituents lies the strength
+of the American nation.
+
+No European section of the American community sufficiently
+preponderates over its fellows to affect the national sympathy toward
+foreign Powers. Irish counteracts English opinion; German sonship is
+balanced by the filial sentiment of the Latin races--the Slavs and
+the Russian Jews have no European predilections. Consequently,
+American foreign policy is dictated by Americans for the benefit of
+Americans, without reference to the warring interests in Europe or in
+Asia. The men who lead in the United States are men who, for the most
+part, have not voyaged beyond the confines of the United States. All
+of their attention upon affairs of State is cast inward upon their own
+land, is absolutely self-centred. The resultant national policy is the
+most selfish, but the most formidable in the world of nations.
+
+American and Briton are alike co-heirs to the common Anglo-Saxon
+heritage, but they are brothers who differ as materially in
+temperament as in ambition and in creed. The Briton is daily becoming
+more cosmopolitan, his outlook more world-wide. The shadow of the
+village pump has departed from his statecraft, and his political
+horizon girdles the earth. But the American remains intensely
+introspective, suspicious of foreign influence, interested solely in
+his world of the Western Hemisphere.
+
+In Britain are Little Englanders who dread every step the nation makes
+in outward expansion, but there are here no Little Americanders. The
+Little Englanders doubt the nation's power to hold the nation's
+possessions. Here, in the United States, are men who question the
+advisability of penetrating into world politics, but no man among them
+has doubt of the nation's power to keep whatever territory the Star
+Spangled Banner once has floated over. They are merely jealous,
+jealous of the absolute isolation of their commonwealth, quick to
+resent any remotest possibility of interference with it.
+
+In every American's ears rings the music of assured success, the
+certainty of a rich inheritance laid up for him and his children's
+children in the internal resources of his country. In many an
+Englishman's ears sound only the doleful croakings of the prophets,
+the sinister rumblings of approaching doom. Though his pessimism be in
+great part born of his climate, it has had a very real effect upon his
+statecraft. It has driven him outward to find hope and sunshine
+abroad, in his colonies, and in India. It has made of the race a
+nation of expansionists, reaping where they have not sown, gathering
+where they have not strawed.
+
+It is otherwise here with us under a sky that would make of Job an
+optimist. All around are light and color, the evidences of life and
+hope. Here the whites are white, and not a dirty drab. The streets
+glisten clean in the sunlight, and every window is a reflector of glad
+promise. In London, choked with fog, and grimy with soot-dust, the
+Englishman cannot see the future for smoke, cannot extract a gleam of
+hope from the sodden, mud-soaked thoroughfares. To be sanguine here on
+my housetop is to be natural and in harmony with my surroundings. To
+be hilarious in the Strand is to be unnatural, to court detention in a
+police cell or a lunatic asylum. There is a wide gulf separating Sandy
+Hook from Land's End, but a still wider between Pennsylvania Avenue
+and the Westminster Bridge Road.
+
+And so those who have dreamed of Anglo-American alliances awake to
+find themselves deceived by the very intensity of their desires. The
+bloodship between the nations is itself the surest deterrent of
+alliance. Just as in the Church marriage between nigh kinsmen is
+forbidden, so political marriage between the British and American
+nations can never be. The United States is possessed of a single
+idea--the consolidation and enrichment of the United States. No
+interest is permitted to clash with that paramount national ambition.
+
+To that end all share in the pomp and vanities of the world is
+sacrificed; her ambassadors tolerated, not supported; her Secretary of
+State snubbed; her President jealously watched in all his exchanges of
+courtesy with foreign Powers. United States citizens may be maltreated
+and murdered in Bulgaria or in China, the United States will not go to
+war on their behalf. Her mission is confined to the Western
+Hemisphere, and over its borders no insult, no cajolery will avail to
+tempt her. Within her own sphere her temper is quick, and her arm
+strong to avenge. Across the ocean she is long suffering and slow to
+anger.
+
+Down here at my feet the American is engaged in his nation-building
+somewhat less satisfactorily than out in the wide world beyond. A
+nation compounded of a dozen alien races may unite on matters of
+foreign policy, but in that is no warranty of harmony at home.
+Domestic strife is as bitter here as in Germany or Britain or France.
+I watch from my housetop men marching in processions of protest; I
+read of strikes; I hear of an infinity of rude wranglings, of senators
+battling on the floor of the forum, of disputes in the sacred halls of
+Tammany. Not yet has the Irish lamb lain down with the Virginian lion.
+
+It were strange were it otherwise in a land where the city man has
+destroyed the home. The American has shown no great genius for the
+domestic virtues. He has hauled down the homes of his ancestors, has
+builded in their stead vast apartment-houses and tenement
+buildings--steam-heated Towers of Babel. Into each of these he has
+packed the population of a European market-town, has left the children
+to grow up on the roofs and staircases, the babies to find a blessed
+release through rickety fire-escapes. When a fit of reform has touched
+him, he has stirred up the garbage of the Tenderloin and the Red Light
+District, has spread it broadcast over his cities to poison his wife
+and his daughter.
+
+No, the American has still much to learn of domestic politics. Let him
+sit with me here any night on my housetop and he will see the sad
+effects of sectarian reform and newspaper hysteria. He will see the
+creatures of the Tenderloin at home on Broadway and Fifth Avenue
+where, twelve months ago, their presence was unknown. He will see the
+policeman on the beat neglect the broken lock of my house door that
+haply he may learn something of the doings of his fellow constable. He
+will see a whole civil service turned into a bureau of information, a
+department of espionage. He will see the entire machinery of city
+government made ineffectual in the sacred name of Reform.
+
+It was an American who made immortal the simple phrase: "There's no
+place like home." Verily, one must take a long day's journey from New
+York ere he discover a place in any essential comparable with the home
+of our childhood's prattle, the home with its mother and its mother
+love, its rosy boys and its sweet faced lasses. That home has been
+handed over to the house-breakers, to make way for modern buildings,
+for improvements on the surroundings that made our mothers and our
+wives.
+
+Sitting here on the housetop, one wonders if those residential
+skyscrapers are indeed rooted in the foul pit of Acheron. If built in
+the proportions of the iceberg, they must reach well into the bowels
+of Tophet and thence derive the evil that is in them.
+
+                         ROGER SKIRVING.
+
+
+
+
+=Lady Betty's Comment=
+
+
+In opposition to the familiar precept of a patriot touching the price
+and preciousness of liberty, femininity, scorning to be free, exults
+in shackles. We hesitate over our own taste, and turn rather to the
+crowning of some courageous male, with a liking and a talent for
+notoriety. The duties of this gentleman being irksome and his reward
+being ridicule, it is perhaps amazing that we stand in no nearer
+danger of lacking a leader for want of aspirants than does the nation
+of begging for a President. Once guided by a master mind the most
+exotic may come frankly forth to meet and struggle with the daily
+weariness of dinner giving and dinner eating: may look towards a
+triumphant overthrow of those problems on what forks to use, what
+jewels to adopt, what mannerisms to affect and what fads to uplift. As
+our persons are no more sacred than our habits we feel that our vanity
+is never safe; and our present despot, who owns a Turkish taste in
+femininity, and insists on the fashionableness of fat, unhappy is the
+woman who, like Mrs. Spottletoe of Chuzzlewit fame, is lean and dry
+and errs on the side of slimness.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The dawn of the racing season alters the bucolic character of the
+roads leading to Morris Park and makes them gay and noisy
+thoroughfares--conglomerations of smart traps and rainbow frocks. The
+drive to and from the track is the jolliest feature of a programme
+that--as is not uncommonly the case where the mighty are
+involved--smacks not a little of sameness. The inevitable lunch at the
+club house is occasionally enlivened by a friendly tiff over the
+possession of a piazza table where is offered a view of the course
+combined with the comforts of repletion, and is, in consequence,
+considered a vantage point of desirability. We meet the same people,
+and we eat of the same dishes disguised in the same service, that
+daily play the routine of our fashion; for, as Thackeray says of his
+British, wherever we may go, we carry with us our pills and our
+prejudices. And there be times, too, when we almost echo those
+cravings of poor Becky Sharp who, having attained the summits of
+society, cries in the desperation of her ennui: "Oh, how much gayer it
+would be to dance in spangles in a booth!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+That enterprising bachelor, Mr. James Henry Smith, evinces a nice
+taste in matters feminine. His much-to-be-desired box seat is not
+infrequently embellished by the presence of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
+who this year shows a preference for the varying shades of Quaker
+gray, and was recently admired in a cloth of that color made with a
+plain skirt and a blousing coat with bishop sleeves. Mrs. Alfred
+likewise leans modestly towards the dove and is shown at her best in
+a soft pale frock trimmed with passementerie of the same shade and
+topped by a large hat of black chip tipped well towards the right
+side. Mrs. Alfred is young enough to ignore the ravages of a possible
+embonpoint, but there be other matrons who hang so uncertainly about
+that borderland of beauty that they somehow manage to convey the hint
+that only by an unwinking watchfulness do they succeed in foiling the
+onslaughts of his ogreship of avoirdupois. In their eye lurks terror
+and in their lines one spells their secret of rebellious hunger; of
+Delsarte, gymnastics and massage. Sometimes the matron is an
+improvement on the maid. But this is not always true. For those who
+turn coarse and harsh with years, we recommend Christian Science and a
+less flexible self-denial.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We find it difficult to understand that lack of sense and taste which
+led to the recent criticisms of Mr. Jefferson's oratory on the Actor's
+Home occasion. Mr. Jefferson, happening by mistake to pass over one of
+the many names of benefactors, and, presto! there were a dozen
+listeners, malice-prompted, eager to ascribe to this falter of an old
+man's memory every meager and jealous motive. An intricate and, of a
+necessity, a somewhat didactic argument, delivered in the open air,
+does not become the simplest of tasks in the hands of an old gentleman
+who has turned his back upon the fourscore mark. He was brave and he
+was most obliging to undertake a speech of any character, and now his
+payment seems to be in the customary false, ill-natured coin.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+It is said that the late Ward McAllister shrank with peculiar distaste
+from the vulgarity of divorce. If so he is to be congratulated on
+passing away before the publication of his niece's domestic misfits.
+Mrs. Young is appallingly frank concerning her wrongs and the suit
+threatens to be spicy; although so far, the name of the actress
+corespondent has not been given to the press. It was good of Mr.
+McAllister to attempt that separation of wheat from chaff which at one
+time rendered his verdicts of such dread power among social aspirants;
+it may be the irony of mockery that to-day his family are conspicuous
+upon only two points. One relative goes clamorously into the divorce
+court while another wins celebration by the showy style of a bodice.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The gossip who predicted that the wife of the French ambassador would
+decline to be received by the Countess Cassini must content herself as
+best she may with the development of some lesser scandal, for
+certainly this last effort has met refutation. Mme. Cambon dined at
+the Russian embassy like the diplomatic woman that she is.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The visit of Miss Roosevelt to Cuba is said to have been more or less
+of a failure speaking from a Latin standpoint. Miss Roosevelt did not
+"take" with the Cuban element. She is uncompromisingly Anglo-Saxon and
+lacks that pliability which would endear her to the children of
+another race. Cuban women excel in charm of mannerism and in their
+eyes Miss Roosevelt appears unpolished and uncut. We may like her
+better as she is, but it is safe to say that had she but a few added
+years of experience there would have been a more gracious outcome to
+her trip. Miss Roosevelt Scovel was recently dining at Sherry's. She
+wore an exquisite white frock but is not herself a pretty girl though
+her grace uplifts somewhat her mediocrity of appearance.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+It is the province of brides to be as bedecked as circumstances
+permit. Why then does Mrs. Depew automobile about Washington in a
+miserable machine that most people would refuse to be seen in? Is it
+humility? It is not gallant in Chauncey to permit the lady to appear
+in such an antiquated rattletrap. In appearance she is a plain woman;
+sensible, gracious and nice. Her position is a trying one which she
+supports with tact. So far she has been guilty of no error of taste
+and her manner with her husband is pleasant without bearing a trace of
+that silliness which the Senator's great age encouraged Washington to
+expect. No one has yet enjoyed any spiteful fun at Mrs. Depew's
+expense though many were on the _qui vive_ for entertainment.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Idlehours has been duly garnished for the return of the master, who
+loves this home better than the gray pile which represents the best
+architectural type on Fifth Avenue. Mr. Vanderbilt is modestly
+conscious of the prestige wrested from Fournier, and is a cheering
+illustration of the soundness of open-air enjoyment.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+How often have we read of the monthly ten thousand dollars which our
+ambassador will lavish upon Brook House! In justice to Mr. Reid it
+must be owned that he is simplicity itself, and by no one is it
+supposed that either he or Mrs. Reid have part in the publication of
+these details. He showed wisdom in a preference for his own household
+over the proffered royal quarters which would have been assigned him.
+He is chosen for his fitness, but were he the veriest clod the dignity
+of his position would still carry with it a sufficient measure of
+respect. Our desire to embellish its importance is absurd, and the
+hysteria of the dailies is calculated to place a dignified gentleman
+in a ridiculous light. Mrs. Reid's name and cultivation will doubtless
+enable her to support a monotonous role with grace; but, in
+consideration of British proficiency in matters ceremonial, their
+money will not be called upon to add a jot to the dignity of their
+reception. Their early departure has not prevented the opening of
+their country place, Ophir Hall, in the vicinity of White Plains,
+while their neighbor, Colonel Astor, has long been established at
+Ferncliffe.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Miss Nannie Leiter, of studious renown, is visiting Chicago in the
+company of her father. Mamma Leiter plans a garden party in compliment
+to Ambassador and Madame Cambon, while brother Joseph courts fame from
+the arena of Buffalo Bill; but for a clear space of a day or two we
+have learned naught of Daisy of the violet orbs. They are the
+loveliest eyes in Washington, by contrast with which the commoner
+grays and blues appeal to the enamoured diplomats but as so many
+soulless pebbles.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+From London wafts the rumor that Alexandra, pleading a dread of
+copy-designing peeresses, guards with jealous vigilance the secret of
+her coronation crown, and gossip adds that she fears to have it
+duplicated by some enterprising American. It is doubtful if the
+peculiar humor of the British populace would allow of a full
+appreciation of this joke. Years and etiquette combined have led her
+Majesty to the thraldom of the rouge and enamel pot. Like the sensible
+woman that she is she attempts no concealment of the fact that she
+protects herself from becoming hideous by the employment of three
+maids whose duty it is to successively undertake the embellishment of
+the royal countenance. By means of this relief no one of these women
+loses her delicacy of eye and touch, and Alexandra blooms with the
+rosy softness of a girl.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The papers seem to be woefully wrought up over the financial rating of
+Mr. Harry Lehr. Whether he is or whether he is not a wine boomer would
+not ordinarily be a query of agitating importance. Nor yet is the
+exact proportion of his yearly salary of national interest. No one
+ever accused this agile gentleman of setting up for a millionaire
+while his ingenuousness touching his wife's property is disconcerting
+in its frankness.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Now that Tom Reed is settled in New York one wonders somewhat that one
+hears so little of his family. They are to be congratulated on their
+breeding, for with his prominence to back them they would find
+notoriety an easy plum. A gentleman called at Mr. Reed's office a day
+or two ago to ask for an autograph letter on the plea that he had in
+his possession one of each of the speakers, and wound up his request
+with the half joking query of "You are a great man, are you not, Mr.
+Reed?" "No," said the rotund Tom in his big-voiced drawl, "No, but I
+am a good man."
+
+                         BETTY STAIR.
+
+
+
+
+=The Play=
+
+
+If it be true that the future is revealed in the past, then should
+there be something in the dramatic season which is dead to indicate
+the character of the season not yet born. By the straws of public
+approval is the course of the dramatic current determined by those
+master mariners of the stage, the managers of theatres. The late
+season has left no great store of such buoys to mark the fair channel
+to success. Of such as there are, the purport is not altogether
+convincing.
+
+To record that "Du Barry" and "Beauty and the Beast" are notable
+successes is but to record that the public, as ever, is attracted by
+display of rich vestments and spectacular effect. Such straws indicate
+nothing more than that a Circus or a Wild West Show will seduce to
+Madison Square Garden an audience that would fill a theatre for a
+month.
+
+Mr. Hawtrey's triumph at the Garrick Theatre is as little of a guide
+to popular opinion as was Anna Held's or Weber and Fields'. No
+manager in his senses would suggest that because Mr. Hawtrey
+succeeded with "A Message from Mars," the public are prepared to
+support a series of like Christmas ghost stories. It was the novelty
+that took, and the personality of a refreshingly non-American actor.
+
+For myself I would seek the trend of public opinion in a very
+different group of plays; in a batch that did not chronicle one single
+great success, but each of which received a fair meed of popular
+support. I refer to such plays as "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray," "A
+Modern Magdalen," and "Tess of the D'Urbervilles." In such plays lies
+the modern tragedy. They are addressed to the times, actual,
+intelligible.
+
+But such as held the New York stage in the past season were timorously
+constructed, bowdlerized by stage managers and, for the most part,
+poorly acted. Two of the three I have indicated are plays many seasons
+old. The greatest of these is "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray," interpreted
+for us by the greatest actress who ever essayed the part. It indicated
+a development I believe to be still in its infancy--a development that
+was arrested before it had been weaned from its first timid suckling.
+
+The public does not desire the problem play. It demands a play that
+will end with a curtain definite, convincing. But in the problem plays
+of the past it finds the material it fain would see applied to a
+bolder, unequivocal purpose. In the eight years that have elapsed
+since the production of Pinero's "Tanqueray," the public's stomach has
+been strengthened. It is able to digest tragedies in drawing rooms. It
+no longer requires peptonized drama. The playgoer no longer demands
+whatever of primal passion is presented to him to be dressed in
+doublet and hose. He can accept plain truths in the speech of the day,
+villains and heroines in the costume of the clubs and Fifth Avenue.
+
+The great play of the future must be a play of the times, must deal
+with the real things of life, must balk at no expression of modern
+tendencies, must reveal the skeleton in the twentieth century
+cupboard.
+
+The days of the historical romance are happily ended. Such milk and
+water diet is food not fit for men. The new dramatist must provide us
+with strong meat, properly served by players of intelligence and
+insight, if dramatic art is to be rescued from the slough into which
+it has so miserably sunk. The question is: Can America produce a
+writer of sufficient originality, a manager of sufficient courage, an
+actor of sufficient understanding to give the public what it asks?
+
+If such there be, their names are not Clyde Fitch or David Belasco,
+Charles Frohman or Daniel Frohman, Richard Mansfield or Amelia
+Bingham.
+
+                         JAQUES.
+
+
+=Artistic Disarray=
+
+
+    A sweet disorder in the dress
+    Kindles in clothes a wantonness;--
+    A lawn about the shoulders thrown
+    Into a fine distraction--
+    An erring lace which here and there
+    Enthrals the crimson stomacher,--
+    A cuff neglectful, and thereby
+    Ribbands to flow confusedly,--
+    A winning wave deserving note,
+    In the tempestuous petticoat,--
+    A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
+    I see a wild civility,--
+    Do more bewitch me, than when art
+    Is too precise in every part.
+
+                         --Robert Herrick.
+
+
+
+
+=Tavern Series=
+
+
+That Smuggled Silk
+
+By THE OLD LOBBYIST
+
+
+Should your curiosity invite it, and the more since I promised you the
+story, we will now, my children, go about the telling of that one
+operation in underground silk. It is not calculated to foster the
+pride of an old man to plunge into a relation of dubious doings of his
+youth. And yet, as I look backward on that one bit of smuggling of
+which I was guilty, so far as motive was involved, I exonerate myself.
+I looked on the government, because of the South's conquest by the
+North, and that later ruin of myself through the machinations of the
+Revenue office, as both a political and a personal foe. And I felt,
+not alone morally free, but was impelled besides in what I deemed a
+spirit of justice to myself, to wage war against it as best I might.
+It was on such argument, where the chance proffered, that I sought
+wealth as a smuggler. I would deplete the government--forage, as it
+were, on the enemy--thereby to fatten my purse. Of course, as my hair
+has whitened with the sifting frosts of years, I confess that my
+sophistries of smuggling seem less and less plausible, while smuggling
+itself loses whatever of romantic glamour it may have been invested
+with or what little color of respect to which it might seem able to
+lay claim.
+
+This tale shall be told in simplest periods. That is as should be; for
+expression should ever be meek and subjugated when one's story is the
+mere story of a cheat. There is scant room in such recital for heroic
+phrase. Smuggling, and paint it with what genius one may, can be
+nothing save a skulking, hiding, fear-eaten trade. There is nothing
+about it of bravery or dash. How therefore, and avoid laughter, may
+one wax stately in any telling of its ignoble details?
+
+When, following my unfortunate crash in tobacco, I had cleared away
+the last fragment of the confusion that reigned in my affairs, I was
+driven to give my nerves a respite and seek a rest. For three months I
+had been under severest stress. When the funeral was done--for funeral
+it seemed to me--and my tobacco enterprise and those hopes it had so
+flattered were forever laid at rest, my nerves sank exhausted and my
+brain was in a whirl. I could neither think with clearness nor plan
+with accuracy. Moreover, I was prey to that depression and lack of
+confidence in myself, which come inevitably as the corollary of utter
+weariness.
+
+Aware of this personal condition, I put aside thought of any present
+formulation of a future. I would rest, recover poise, and win back
+that optimism that belongs with health and youth. This was wisdom; I
+was jaded beyond belief; and fatigue means dejection, and dejection
+spells pessimism, and pessimism is never sagacious nor excellent in
+any of its programmes.
+
+For that rawness of the nerves I speak of, many apply themselves to
+drink; some rush to drugs; for myself, I take to music. It was
+midwinter, and grand opera was here. This was fortunate. I buried
+myself in a box, and opened my very pores to those nerve-healthful
+harmonies. In a week thereafter I might call myself recovered. My soul
+was cool, my eye bright, my mind clear and sensibly elate. Life and
+its promises seemed mightily refreshed.
+
+No one has ever called me superstitious, and yet to begin my
+course-charting for a new career, I harked back to the old Astor
+House. It was there that brilliant thought of tobacco overtook me two
+years before. Perhaps an inspiration was to dwell in an environment.
+Again I registered, and finding it tenantless, took over again my old
+room.
+
+Still I cannot say, and it is to that hostelry's credit, that my
+domicile at the Astor aided me to my smuggling resolves. Those last
+had growth somewhat in this fashion: I had dawdled for two hours over
+coffee in the cafe--the room and the employment which had one-time
+brought me fortune--but was incapable of any thought of value. I could
+decide on nothing good. Indeed, I did naught save mentally curse those
+Washington revenue miscreants who, failing of blackmail, had destroyed
+me for revenge.
+
+Whatever comfort may lurk in curses, at least they carry no money
+profit; so after a fruitless session over coffee and maledictions, I
+arose, and as a calmative, walked down Broadway. At Trinity
+churchyard, the gates being open, I turned in and began ramblingly to
+twine and twist among the graves. There I encountered a garrulous old
+man who, for his own pleasure, evidently, devoted himself to my
+information. He pointed out the grave of Fulton, he of the steamboats;
+then I was shown the tomb of that Lawrence who would "never give up
+the ship"; from there I was carried to the last low bed of the
+love-wrecked beautiful Charlotte Temple.
+
+My eye at last, by the alluring voice and finger of the old guide, was
+drawn to a spot under the tower where sleeps the Lady Cornbury, dead
+now as I tell this, hardly two hundred years. Also I was told of that
+Lord Cornbury, her husband, once governor of the colony for his
+relative, Queen Anne; and how he became so much more efficient as a
+smuggler and a customs cheat, than ever he was as an executive, that
+he lost in 1708 his high employment.
+
+Because I had nothing more worthy to occupy my leisure, I
+listened--somewhat listlessly, I promise you, for after all I was
+thinking of the future not the past, and considering of the living
+rather than those old dead folk, obscure, forgotten in their slim
+graves--I listened, I say, wordlessly to my gray historian; and
+somehow, after I was free of him, the one thing that remained alive in
+my memory was the smuggling story of our Viscount Cornbury.
+
+Among those few acquaintances I had formed during my brief
+prosperity, was one with a gentleman named Harris, who had owned
+apartments under mine on Twenty-second Street. Harris was elegant,
+educated, traveled, and apparently well-to-do in riches. Busy with my
+own mounting fortunes, the questions of who Harris was? and what he
+did? and how he lived? never rapped at the door of my curiosity for
+reply. One night, however, as we sat over a late and by no means a
+first bottle of wine, Harris himself informed me that he was employed
+in smuggling; had a partner-accomplice in the Customs House, and
+perfect arrangements aboard a certain ship. By these last double
+advantages, he came aboard with twenty trunks, if he so pleased,
+without risking anything from the inquisitiveness or loquacity of the
+officers of the ship; and later debarked at New York with the
+certainty of going scatheless through the customs as rapidly as his
+Inspector partner could chalk scrawlingly "O.K." upon his sundry
+pieces of baggage.
+
+Coming from Old Trinity, still mooting Cornbury and his smugglings, my
+thoughts turned to Harris. Also, for the earliest time, I began to
+consider within myself whether smuggling was not a field of business
+wherein a pushing man might grow and reap a harvest. The idea came to
+me to turn "free-trader." The government had destroyed me; I would
+make reprisal. I would give my hand to smuggling and spoil the
+Egyptian.
+
+At once I sought Harris and over a glass of Burgundy--ever a favorite
+wine with me--we struck agreement. As a finale, we each put in fifteen
+thousand dollars and with the whole sum of thirty thousand dollars
+Harris pushed forth for Europe while I remained behind. Harris visited
+Lyons; and our complete investment was in a choicest sort of Lyons
+silk. The rich fabrics were packed in a dozen trunks--not all alike,
+these trunks, but differing, one from another, so as to prevent the
+notion as they stood about the wharf that there was aught of
+relationship between them or that one man stood owner of them all.
+
+It is not needed to tell of my partner's voyage of return. It was
+without event and one may safely abandon it, leaving its relation to
+Harris himself, if he be yet alive and should the spirit him so move.
+It is enough for the present purpose that in due time the trunks
+holding our precious silk-bolts, with Harris as their convoy, arrived
+safe in New York. I had been looking for the boat's coming and was
+waiting eagerly on the wharf as her lines and her stagings were run
+ashore. Our partner, the Inspector, and who was to enjoy a per cent of
+the profits of the speculation, was named Lorns. He rapidly chalked
+"O.K." with his name affixed to the end of each several trunk, and it
+thereupon with the balance of inspected baggage was promptly piled
+upon the wharf.
+
+There had been a demand for drays, I remember, and on this day when
+our silks came in, I was able to procure but one. The ship did not
+dock until late in the afternoon, and at eight o'clock of a dark,
+foggy April evening, there still remained one of our trunks--the
+largest of all, it was--on the wharf. The dray had departed with the
+second load for that concealing loft on Reade Street which, in Harris'
+absence, I had taken to be used as the depot of those smuggling
+operations wherein we might become engaged. I had made every move with
+caution; I had never employed our real names, not even with the
+drayman.
+
+As I was telling, the dray was engaged about the second trip. This
+last large silk-trunk was left behind perforce; pile it how one might,
+there had been no safe room for it on the already overloaded dray. The
+drayman had promised to return and have it safely in our loft that
+night.
+
+For myself, I was from first to last lounging about the wharf,
+overseeing the going away of our goods. Harris, so soon as I gave him
+key and street-number had posted to Reade Street to attend the silk's
+reception. Waiting for the coming back of the conveying dray was but a
+slow, dull business, and I was impatiently, at the hour I've named,
+walking up and down, casting an occasional glance at the big last
+trunk where it stood on end, a bit drawn out and separated from that
+common mountain of baggage wherewith the wharf was piled. One of the
+general inspectors, a man I had never seen but whom I knew, by virtue
+of his rank, to be superior to our chalk-wielding coparcener, Lorns,
+also paced the wharf and appeared to bear me company in a distant,
+non-communicative way. This customs captain and myself, save for an
+under inspector named Quin, had the dock to ourselves. The boat was
+long in and most land folk had gotten through their concern with her
+and wended homeward long before. There were, however, many passengers
+of emigrant sort still held aboard the ship.
+
+As I marched up and down, Lorns came ashore and pretended some
+business with his superior officer. As he returned to the ship and
+what duties he had still to perform there, he made a slight signal to
+both myself and his fellow inspector, Quin, to follow him. I was well
+known to Lorns, having had several talks with him, while Harris was
+abroad. Quin I had never met; but it quickly appeared that he was a
+confidant of Lorns, and while without a money interest in our affairs
+was ready to bear a helping hand should a situation commence to pinch.
+
+Quin and I went severally and withal carelessly aboard ship, and not
+at all as though we were seeking Lorns. This was to darken the chief,
+who was not in our secrets and whom we both surmised to be the cause
+of Lorns' signal.
+
+Once aboard, and gathered in a dark corner, Lorns began at once:
+
+"Let me do the talking," said Lorns with a nervous rapidity that at
+once enlisted the ears of Quin and myself. "Don't interrupt, but
+listen. The chief suspects that last trunk. I can tell it by the way
+he acts. A bit later, when I come ashore, he'll ask to have it
+opened. Should he do so, we're gone; you and I." This last was to me.
+Then to Quin: "Do you see that tall lean Swiss, with the long boots
+and porcelain pipe? He's in an ugly mood, doesn't speak English, and
+within one minute after you return to the wharf, he and I will be
+entangled in a rough and tumble riot. I'll attend to that. The row
+will be prodigious. The chief will be sent for to settle the war, and
+when he leaves the wharf, Quin, don't wait; seize on that silk trunk
+and throw it into the river. There's iron enough clamped about the
+corners to sink it; besides, it's packed so tightly it's as heavy as
+lead, and will go to the bottom like an anvil. Then from the pile pull
+down some trunk similar to it in looks and stand it in its place. Give
+the new trunk my mark, as the chief has already read the name on the
+trunk. Go, Quin; I rely on you."
+
+"You can trust me, my boy," retorted Quin cheerfully, and turning on
+his heel, he was back on the wharf in a moment, and apparently busy
+about the pile of baggage.
+
+Suddenly there came a mighty uproar aboard ship. Lorns and the Swiss,
+the latter already irate over some trouble he had experienced, were
+rolling about the deck in a most violent scrimmage, the Swiss having
+decidedly the worst of the trouble. The chief rushed up the plank;
+Lorns and the descendant of Tell and Winkelried, were torn apart; and
+then a double din of explanation ensued. After ten minutes, the chief
+was able to straighten out the difficulty--whatever its pretended
+cause might be I know not; for I held myself warily aloof, not a
+little alarmed by what Lorns had communicated--and repaired again to
+his station upon the wharf. As he came down the plank, Quin, who had
+not been a moment behind him in going aboard to discover the reasons
+of the riot, followed. Brief as was that moment, however, during which
+Quin had lingered behind, he had made the shift suggested by Lorns;
+the silk trunk was under the river, a strange trunk stood in its
+stead. As the chief returned, he walked straight to this suspected
+trunk and tipped it down with his foot. Then to Quin:
+
+"Ask Lorns to step here."
+
+Quin went questing after Lorns; shortly Lorns and Quin came back
+together. The chief turned in a brisk, sharp, official way to Lorns:
+
+"Did you inspect this trunk?"
+
+"I did," said Lorns, looking at the chalk marks as if to make sure.
+
+"Open it!"
+
+No keys were procurable; the owners, Lorns said, had long since left
+the docks. But Lorns suggested that he get hammer and cold chisel from
+the ship.
+
+The trunk was opened and found free and innocent of aught contraband.
+The chief wore a puzzled, dark look; he felt that he'd been cheated,
+but he couldn't say how. Therefore being wise, the chief gulped, said
+nothing, and as life is short and he had many things to do, soon
+after left the docks and went his way.
+
+"That was a squeak!" said Lorns when we were at last free of the
+dangerous chief. "Quin, I thank you."
+
+"That's all right," retorted Quin, with a grin; "do as much for me
+some time."
+
+That night, with the aid of a river rat, our trunk, jettisoned by the
+excellent Quin, was fished up; and being tight as a drum, its contents
+had come to little harm with their sudden baptism. At last, our dozen
+silk trunks--holding a treasure of thirty thousand dollars and whereon
+we looked to clear a heavy profit--were safe in the Reade Street loft;
+and my hasty heart, which had been beating at double speed since that
+almost fatal interference, slowed to normal count.
+
+One might now suppose that our woes were at an end, all danger over,
+and nothing to do but dispose of our shimmering cargo to best
+advantage. Harris and I were of that spirit-lifting view; we began on
+the very next day to feel about for customers.
+
+Harris, whose former smuggling exploits had dealt solely with gems,
+knew as little of silk as did I. Had either been expert we might have
+foreseen a coming peril into whose arms we in our blindness all but
+walked. No, my children, our troubles were not yet done. We had
+escaped the engulfing suck of Charybdis, only to be darted upon by
+those six grim mouths of her sister monster, Scylla, over the way.
+
+Well do I recall that morning. I had seen but two possible purchasers
+of silks when Harris overtook me. His eye shone with alarm. Lorns had
+run him down with the news--however he himself discovered it, I never
+knew--that another peril was yawning. Harris hurried me to our Reade
+Street lair and gave particulars.
+
+"It seems," said Harris, quite out of breath with the speed we'd made
+in hunting cover, "that A.T. Stewart is for America the sole agent of
+these particular brands of silk which we've brought in. Some one to
+whom we've offered them has notified the Stewart company. At this
+moment and as we sit here, the detectives belonging to Stewart, and
+for all I may guess, the whole Central Office as well, are on our
+track. They want to discover who has these silks; and how they came
+in, since the customs records show no such importations. And there's a
+dark characteristic to these silks. Each bolt has its peculiar,
+individual selvage. Each, with a sample of its selvage, is registered
+at the home looms. Could anyone get a snip of a selvage he could
+return with it to Lyons, learn from the manufacturers' book just when
+it was woven, when sold, and to whom. I can tell you one thing,"
+observed Harris, as he concluded his story, "we're in a bad corner."
+
+How the cold drops spangled my brows! I began to wish with much heart
+that I'd never met Harris; nor heard, that Trinity churchyard day, of
+Cornbury and his devious smuggling methods of gathering wealth.
+
+There was one ray of hope; neither Harris nor I had disclosed our
+names, nor the whereabouts or quantity of the silks; and as each had
+been dealing with folk with whom he'd never before met, we were both
+as yet mysteries unsolved. Nor were we ever solved. Harris and I kept
+off the streets during daylight hours for a full month. We were not
+utterly idle; we unpleasantly employed ourselves in trimming away that
+tell-tale selvage. Preferring safety to profit, we put forth no
+efforts to realize on our speculations for almost a year. By that time
+the one day's wonder of "Who's got A.T. Stewart's silks?" had ceased
+to disturb the mercantile world and the grand procession of dry goods
+interest had passed on and over it. At last we crept forth like
+felons--as of good sooth! we were--and disposed of our mutilated silks
+to certain good folk whose forefathers once ruled Palestine. These
+beaky gentry liked bargains, and were in nowise curious; they bought
+our wares without lifting an eyebrow of inquiry, and from them
+constructed--though with that I had no concern--those long
+"circulars," so called, which were the feminine joy a third of a
+century gone. As to Harris and myself; what with delays, what with
+expenses, what with figures reduced to dispose of our plunder, we got
+evenly out. We got back our money; but for those fear-shaken hours of
+two separate perils, we were never paid.
+
+For myself, I smuggled no more. Still, I did not relinquish my pious
+purpose to despoil that public treasury Egyptian quoted heretofore.
+Neither did I give up the Customs as a rich theater of illicit
+endeavor. Only my methods changed. I now decided that I, myself, would
+become an Inspector, like unto the useful Lorns, and make my fortune
+from the opulent inside. I procured the coveted appointment, for I
+could bring power to bear, and some future day I'll tell you of "The
+Emperor's Cigars."
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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