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Balaustion's Adventure/III

"I understand," slow the words came at last. "Nor of a sudden did the evil here Fly on me: I have known it long ago, Ay, and essayed myself in misery; Nothing is new. You have to stay, you friends, Because the next need is to carry forth The corpse here: you must stay and do your part, Chant proper pæan to the God below; Drink-sacrifice he likes not. I decree That all Thessalians over whom I rule Hold grief in common with me; let them shear Their locks, and be the peplos black they show! And you who to the chariot yoke your steeds. Or manage steeds one-frontleted, — I charge, Clip from each neck with steel the mane away! And through my city, nor of flute nor lyre Be there a sound till twelve full moons succeed. For I shall never bury any corpse Dearer than this to me, nor better friend: One worthy of all honour from me, since Me she has died for, she and she alone."

With that, he sought the inmost of the house, He and his dead, to get grave's garniture, While the friends sang the pæan that should peal. "Daughter of Pelias, with farewell from me, I' the house of Hades have thy unsunned home! Let Hades know, the dark-haired deity, — And he who sits to row and steer alike, Old corpse-conductor, let him know he bears Over the Acherontian lake, this time, I' the two-oared boat, the best — oh, best by far Of womankind! For thee, Alkestis Queen! Many a time those haunters of the Muse Shall sing thee to the seven-stringed mountain-shell, And glorify in hymns that need no harp, At Sparta when the cycle comes about, And that Karneian month wherein the moon Rises and never sets the whole night through: So too at splendid and magnificent Athenai. Such the spread of thy renown, And such the lay that, dying, thou hast left Singer and sayer. O that I availed Of my own might to send thee once again From Hades' hall, Kokutos' stream, by help O' the oar that dips the river, back to day!"

So, the song sank to prattle in her praise: "Light, from above thee, lady, fall the earth, Thou only one of womankind to die, Wife for her husband! If Admetos take Anything to him like a second spouse — Hate from his offspring and from us shall be His portion, let the king assure himself! No mind his mother had to hide in earth Her body for her son's sake, nor his sire Had heart to save whom he begot, — not they, The white-haired wretches! only thou it was, I' the bloom of youth, didst save him and so die! Might it be mine to chance on such a mate And partner! For there's penury in life Of such allowance: were she mine at least, So wonderful a wife, assuredly She would companion me throughout my days And never once bring sorrow!" A great voice — "My hosts here!" Oh, the thrill that ran through us! Never was aught so good and opportune As that great interrupting voice! For see! Here maundered this dispirited old age Before the palace; whence a something crept Which told us well enough without a word What was a-doing inside, — every touch O' the garland on those temples, tenderest Disposure of each arm along its side, Came putting out what warmth i' the world was left. Then, as it happens at a sacrifice When, drop by drop, some lustral bath is brimmed: Into the thin and clear and cold, at once They slaughter a whole wine-skin; Bacchos' blood Sets the white water all a-flame: even so, Sudden into the midst of sorrow, leapt Along with the gay cheer of that great voice, Hope, joy, salvation: Herakles was here! Himself, o' the threshold, sent his voice on first To herald all that human and divine I' the weary happy face of him, — half God Half man, which made the god-part God the more.

"Hosts mine," he broke upon the sorrow with, "Inhabitants of this Pheraian soil, Chance I upon Admetos inside here?"

The irresistible sound wholesome heart O' the hero, — more than all the mightiness At labour in the limbs that, for man's sake, Laboured and meant to labour their life long, — This drove back, dried up sorrow at its source. How could it brave the happy weary laugh Of who had bantered sorrow "Sorrow here? What have you done to keep your friend from harm? Could no one give the life I see he keeps? Or, say there's sorrow here past friendly help, Why waste a word or let a tear escape While other sorrows wait you in the world, And want the life of you, though helpless here?" Clearly there was no telling such an one How, when their monarch tried who loved him more Than he loved them, and found they loved, as he, Each man, himself, and held, no otherwise, That, of all evils in the world, the worst Was — being forced to die, whate'er death gain: How all this selfishness in him and them Caused certain sorrow which they sang about, — I think that Herakles, who held his life Out on his hand, for any man to take — I think his laugh had marred their threnody.

"He is i' the house," they answered. After all, They might have told the story, talked their best About the inevitable sorrow here, Nor changed nor checked the kindly nature, — no! So long as men were merely weak, not bad, He loved men: were they Gods he used to help? "Yea, Pheres' son is in-doors, Herakles: But say, what sends thee to Thessalian soil, Brought by what business to this Pherai town?" "A certain labour that I have to do Eurustheus the Tirunthian," laughed the God. "And whither wendest — on what wandering Bound now?" (they had an instinct, guessed what meant Wanderings, labours, in the God's light mouth.) "After the Thracian Diomedes' car With the four horses."

"Ah, but canst thou that? Art inexperienced in thy host to be?"

"All-inexperienced: I have never gone As yet to the land o' the Bistones."

"Then, look By no means to be master of the steeds Without a battle!"

"Battle there may be: I must refuse no labour, all the same."

"Certainly, either having slain a foe Wilt thou return to us, or, slain thyself, Stay there!"

"And, even if the game be so, The risk in it were not the first I run."

"But, say thou over-power the lord o' the place, What more advantage dost expect thereby?"

"I shall drive off his horses to the king."

"No easy handling them to bit the jaw!"

"Easy enough; except, at least, they breathe Fire from their nostrils!"

"But they mince up men With those quick jaws!"

"You talk of provender For mountain-beasts, and not mere horses' food!"

"Thou may'st behold their mangers caked with gore!"

"And of what sire does he who bred them boast Himself the son?"

"Of Ares, king o' the targe — Thrakian, of gold throughout."

Another laugh. "Why, just the labour, just the lot for me Dost thou describe in what I recognize! Since hard and harder, high and higher yet, Truly this lot of mine is like to go If I must needs join battle with the brood Of Ares: ay, I fought Lukaon first, And again, Kuknos: now engage in strife This third time, with such horses and such lord. But there is nobody shall ever see Alkmené's son shrink, foemen's hand before!" — "Or ever hear him say" (the chorus thought) "That death is terrible; and help us so To chime in — 'terrible beyond a doubt. And, if to thee, why, to ourselves much more: Know what has happened, then, and sympathize!' " Therefore they gladly stopped the dialogue, Shifted the burthen to new shoulder straight, As, "Look where comes the lord o' the land, himself, Admetos, from the palace!" they out-broke In some surprise, as well as much relief. What had induced the king to waive his right And luxury of woe in loneliness?

Out he came quietly; the hair was dipt, And the garb sable; else no outward sign Of sorrow as he came and faced his friend. Was truth fast terrifying tears away? "Hail, child of Zeus, and sprung from Perseus too!" The salutation ran without a fault.

"And thou, Admetos, King of Thessaly!"

"Would, as thou wishest me, the grace might fall! But my good-wisher, that thou art, I know."

"What's here? these shorn locks, this sad show of thee?"

"I must inter a certain corpse to-day."

"Now, from thy children God avert mischance!"

"They live, my children; all are in the house!"

"Thy father — if 't is he departs indeed, His age was ripe at least."

"My father lives, And she who bore me lives too, Herakles."

"It cannot be thy wife Alkestis gone?"

"Two-fold the tale is, I can tell of her."

"Dead dost thou speak of her, or living yet?"

"She is — and is not: hence the pain to me!"

"I learn no whit the more, so dark thy speech!"

"Know'st thou not on what fate she needs must fall?"

"I know she is resigned to die for thee."

"How lives she still, then, if submitting so?"

"Eh, weep her not beforehand! wait till then!"

"Who is to die is dead; doing is done."

"To be and not to be are thought diverse."

"Thou judgest this — I, that way, Herakles!"

"Well, but declare what causes thy complaint! Who is the man has died from out thy friends?"

"No man: I had a woman in my mind."

"Alien, or someone born akin to thee?"

"Alien: but still related to my house."

"How did it happen then that here she died?"

"Her father dying left his orphan here."

"Alas, Admetos — would we found thee gay, Not grieving!"

"What as if about to do Subjoinest thou that comment?"

"I shall seek Another hearth, proceed to other hosts."

"Never, O king, shall that be! No such ill Betide me!"

"Nay, to mourners, should there come A guest, he proves importunate!"

"The dead— Dead are they: but go thou within my house!"

"'T is base carousing beside friends who mourn."

"The guest-rooms, whither we shall lead thee, lie Apart from ours."

"Nay, let me go my way! Ten thousandfold the favor I shall thank!"

"It may not be thou goest to the hearth Of any man but me!" so made an end Admetos, softly and decisively, Of the altercation. Herakles forbore: And the king bade a servant lead the way, Open the guest-rooms ranged remote from view O' the main hall, tell the functionaries, too, They had to furnish forth a plenteous feast: And then shut close the doors o' the hall, midway, "Because it is not proper friends who feast Should hear a groaning or be grieved," quoth he.

Whereat the hero, who was truth itself, Let out the smile again, repressed awhile Like fountain-brilliance one forbids to play. He did too many grandnesses, to note Much in the meaner things about his path: And stepping there, with face towards the sun, Stopped seldom to pluck weeds or ask their names. Therefore he took Admetos at the word: This trouble must not hinder any more A true heart from good will and pleasant ways. And so, the great arm, which had slain the snake, Strained his friend's head a moment in embrace On that broad breast beneath the lion's-hide, Till the king's cheek winced at the thick rough gold; And then strode off, with who had care of him, To the remote guest-chamber: glad to give Poor flesh and blood their respite and relief In the interval 'twixt fight and fight again — All for the world's sake. Our eyes followed him, Be sure, till those mid-doors shut us outside. The king, too, watched great Herakles go off All faith, love, and obedience to a friend.

And when they questioned him, the simple ones, "What dost thou? Such calamity to face, Lies full before thee — and thou art so bold As play the host, Admetos? Hast thy wits?" He replied calmly to each chiding tongue: "But if from house and home I forced away A coming guest, would'st thou have praised me more? No, truly! since calamity were mine, Nowise diminished; while I showed myself Unhappy and inhospitable too: So adding to my ills this other ill, That mine were styled a stranger-hating house. Myself have ever found this man the best Of entertainers when 1 went his way To parched and thirsty Argos." "If so be — Why didst thou hide what destiny was here, When one came that was kindly, as thou say'st?" "He never would have willed to cross my door Had he known aught of my calamities. And probably to some of you I seem Unwise enough in doing what I do; Such will scarce praise me: but these halls of mine Know not to drive off and dishonour guests."

And so, the duty done, he turned once more To go and busy him about his dead. As for the sympathizers left to muse, There was a change, a new light thrown on things, Contagion from the magnanimity O' the man whose life lay on his hand so light, As up he stepped, pursuing duty still "Higher and harder," as he laughed and said. Somehow they found no folly now in the act They blamed erewhile: Admetos' private grief Shrank to a somewhat pettier obstacle I' the way o' the world: they saw good days had been, And good days, peradventure, still might be; Now that they over-looked the present cloud Heavy upon the palace opposite. And soon the thought took words and music thus:—

"Harbour of many a stranger, free to friend, Ever and always, O thou house o' the man We mourn for! Thee, Apollon's very self, The lyric Puthian, deigned inhabit once, Become a shepherd here in thy domains, And pipe, adown the winding hill-side paths, Pastoral marriage-poems to thy flocks At feed: while with them fed in fellowship, Through joy i' the music, spot-skin lynxes; ay, And lions too, the bloody company, Came, leaving Othrus' dell; and round thy lyre, Phoibos, there danced the speckle-coated fawn, Pacing on lightsome fetlock past the pines Tress-topped, the creature's natural boundary, Into the open everywhere; such heart Had she within her, beating joyous beats, At the sweet reassurance of thy song! Therefore the lot o' the master is, to live In a home multitudinous with herds, Along by the fair-flowing Boibian lake, Limited, that ploughed land and pasture-plain, Only where stand the sun's steeds, stabled west I' the cloud, by that mid-air which makes the clime Of those Molossoi: and he rules as well O'er the Aigaian, up to Pelion's shore, — Sea-stretch without a port! Such lord have we: And here he opens house now, as of old, Takes to the heart of it a guest again: Though moist the eyelid of the master, still Mourning his dear wife's body, dead but now!"

And they admired: nobility of soul Was self-impelled to reverence, they saw: The best men ever prove the wisest too: Something instinctive guides them still aright. And on each soul this boldness settled now, That one, who reverenced the Gods so much Would prosper yet: (or — I could wish it ran — Who venerates the Gods i' the main, will still Practise things honest though obscure to judge.)

They ended, for Admetos entered now; Having disposed all duteously indoors, He came into the outside world again, Quiet as ever: but a quietude Bent on pursuing its descent to truth, As who must grope until he gain the ground O' the dungeon doomed to be his dwelling now. Already high o'er head was piled the dusk, When something pushed to stay his downward step, Pluck back despair just reaching its repose. He would have bidden the kind presence there Observe that, — since the corpse was coming out, Cared for in all things that befit the case, Carried aloft, in decency and state, To the last burial place and burning pile, — 'T were proper friends addressed, as custom prompts, Alkestis bound on her last journeying.

"Ay, for we see thy father," they subjoined, "Advancing as the aged foot best may; His servants, too: each bringing in his hand Adornments for thy wife, all pomp that's due To the downward-dwelling people." And in truth, By slow procession till they filled the stage, Came Pheres, and his following, and their gifts. You see, the worst of the interruption was, It plucked back, with an over-hasty hand, Admetos from descending to the truth, (I told you) — put him on the brink again, Full i' the noise and glare where late he stood: With no fate fallen and irrevocable, But all things subject still to chance and change: And that chance, — life, and that change, — happiness. And with the low strife came the little mind: He was once more the man might gain so much, Life too and wife too, would his friends but help! All he felt now was, that there faced him one Supposed the likeliest, in emergency. To help: and help, by mere self-sacrifice So natural, it seemed as if the sire Must needs lie open still to argument, Withdraw the rash decision, not to die But rather live, though death would save his son: — Argument like the ignominious grasp O' the drowner whom his fellow grasps as fierce, Each marvelling that the other needs must hold Head out of water, though friend choke thereby.

And first the father's salutation fell. Burthened, he came, in common with his child, Who lost, none would gainsay, a good chaste spouse: Yet such things must be borne, though hard to bear. "So, take this tribute of adornment, deep In the earth let it descend along with her! Behoves we treat the body with respect — Of one who died, at least, to save thy life, Kept me from being childless, nor allowed That I, bereft of thee, should peak and pine In melancholy age; she, for the sex, All of her sisters, put in evidence, By daring such a feat, that female life Might prove more excellent than men suppose. O thou Alkestis!" out he burst in fine, "Who, while thou savedst this my son, didst raise Also myself from sinking, — hail to thee! Well be it with thee even in the house Of Hades! I maintain, if mortals must Marry, this sort of marriage is the sole Permitted those among them who are wise!"

So his oration ended. Like hates like: Accordingly Admetos, — full i' the face Of Pheres, his true father, outward shape And inward fashion, body matching soul, — Saw just himself when years should do their work And reinforce the selfishness inside Until it pushed the last disguise away: As when the liquid metal cools i' the mould, Stands forth a statue: bloodless, hard, cold bronze. So, in old Pheres, young Admetos showed, Pushed to completion: and a shudder ran, And his repugnance soon had vent in speech: Glad to escape outside, nor, pent within, Find itself there fit food for exercise.

"Neither to this interment called by me Comest thou, nor thy presence I account Among the covetable proofs of love. As for thy tribute of adornment, — no! Ne'er shall she don it, ne'er in debt to thee Be buried! What is thine, that keep thou still! Then it behoved thee to commiserate When I was perishing: but thou, who stood'st Foot-free o' the snare, wast acquiescent then That I, the young, should die, not thou, the old — Wilt thou lament this corpse thyself hast slain? Thou wast not, then, true father to this flesh; Nor she, who makes profession of my birth And styles herself my mother, neither she Bore me: but, come of slave's blood, I was cast Stealthily 'neath the bosom of thy wife! Thou showedst, put to touch, the thing thou art, Nor I esteem myself born child of thee! Otherwise, thine is the preeminence O'er all the world in cowardice of soul: Who, being the old man thou art, arrived Where life should end, didst neither will nor dare Die for thy son, but left the task to her, The alien woman, whom I well might think Own, only mother both and father too! And yet a fair strife had been thine to strive, — Dying for thy own child; and brief for thee In any case, the rest of time to live; While I had lived, and she, our rest of time, Nor I been left to groan in solitude. Yet certainly all things which happy man Ought to experience, thy experience grasped. Thou wast a ruler through the bloom of youth, And I was son to thee, recipient due Of sceptre and demesne, — no need to fear That dying thou should'st leave an orphan house For strangers to despoil. Nor yet wilt thou Allege that as dishonouring, forsooth, Thy length of days, I gave thee up to die, — I, who have held thee in such reverence! And in exchange for it, such gratitude Thou, father, — thou award'st me, mother mine! Go, lose no time, then, in begetting sons Shall cherish thee in age, and, when thou diest, Deck up and lay thee out, as corpses claim! For never I, at least, with this my hand Will bury thee: it is myself am dead So far as lies in thee. But if I light Upon another saviour, and still see The sunbeam, — his, the child I call myself, His, the old age that claims my cherishing. How vainly do these aged pray for death, Abuse the slow drag of senility! But should death step up, nobody inclines To die, nor age is now the weight it was!"

You see what all this poor pretentious talk Tried at, — how weakness strove to hide itself In bluster against weakness, — the loud word To hide the little whisper, not so low Already in that heart beneath those lips! Ha, could it be, who hated cowardice Stood confessed craven, and who lauded so Self-immolating love, himself had pushed The loved one to the altar in his place? Friends interposed, would fain stop further play O' the sharp-edged tongue: they felt love's champion here Had left an undefended point or two. The antagonist might profit by; bade "Pause! Enough the present sorrow! Nor, O son, Whet thus against thyself thy father's soul!"

Ay, but old Pheres was the stouter stuff! Admetos, at the flintiest of the heart, Had so much soft in him as held a fire: The other was all iron, clashed from flint Its fire, but shed no spark and showed no bruise. Did Pheres crave instruction as to facts? He came, content, the ignoble word, for him, Should lurk still in the blackness of each breast, As sleeps the water-serpent half-surmised: Not brought up to the surface at a bound, By one touch of the idly-probing spear, Reed-like against the unconquerable scale. He came pacific, rather, as strength should, Bringing the decent praise, the due regret, And each banality prescribed of old. Did he commence "Why let her die for you?" And rouse the coiled and quiet ugliness "What is so good to man as man's own life?" No: but the other did: and, for his pains, Out, full in face of him, the venom leapt.

"And whom dost thou make bold, son — Ludian slave, Or Phrugian whether, money made thy ware. To drive at with revilings? Know'st thou not I, a Thessalian, from Thessalian sire Spring and am born legitimately free? Too arrogant art thou; and, youngster-words Casting against me, having had thy fling, Thou goest not off as all were ended so! I gave thee birth indeed and mastership I' the mansion, brought thee up to boot: there ends My owing, nor extends to die for thee! Never did I receive it as a law Hereditary, no, nor Greek at all, That sires in place of sons were bound to die. For to thy sole and single self wast thou Born, with whatever fortune, good or bad; Such things as bear bestowment, those thou hast; Already ruling widely, broad lands, too, Doubt not but I shall leave thee in due time: For why? My father left me them before. Well then, where wrong I thee? — of what defraud? Neither do thou die for this man, myself, Nor let him die for thee! — is all I beg. Thou joyest seeing daylight: dost suppose Thy father joys not too? Undoubtedly, Long I account the time to pass below, And brief my span of days; yet sweet the same: Is it otherwise to thee who, impudent, Didst fight off this same death, and livest now Through having sneaked past fate apportioned thee, And slain thy wife so? Cryest cowardice On me, I wonder, thou — the poor poltroon A very woman worsted, daring death Just for the sake of thee, her handsome spark? Shrewdly hast thou contrived how not to die For evermore now: 't is but still persuade The wife, for the time being, to take thy place! What, and thy friends who would not do the like These dost thou carp at, craven thus thyself? Crouch and be silent, craven! Comprehend That, if thou lovest so that life of thine, Why, everybody loves his own life too: So, good words, henceforth! If thou speak us ill, Many and true an ill thing shalt thou hear!"

There you saw leap the hydra at full length! Only, the old kept glorying the more, The more the portent thus uncoiled itself, Whereas the young man shuddered head to foot, And shrank from kinship with the creature. Why Such horror, unless what he hated most, Vaunting itself outside, might fairly claim Acquaintance with the counterpart at home? I would the Chorus here had plucked up heart, Spoken out boldly and explained the man, If not to men, to Gods. That way, I think, Sophokles would have led their dance and song. Here, they said simply "Too much evil spoke On both sides!" As the young before, so now They bade the old man leave abusing thus.

"Let him speak, — I have spoken!" said the youth: And so died out the wrangle by degrees, In wretched bickering. "If thou wince at fact, Behoved thee not prove faulty to myself!"

"Had I died for thee I had faulted more!"

"All's one, then, for youth's bloom and age to die?"

"Our duty is to live one life, not two!"

"Go then, and outlive Zeus, for aught I care!"

"What, curse thy parents with no sort of cause?"

"Curse, truly! All thou lovest is long life!"

"And dost not thou, too, all for love of life,

Carry out now, in place of thine, this corpse?"

"Monument, rather, of thy cowardice. Thou worst one!"

"Not for me she died, I hope! That, thou wilt hardly say!"

"No; simply this: Would, some day, thou may'st come to need myself!"

"Meanwhile, woo many wives — the more will die!"

"And so shame thee who never dared the like!"

"Dear is this light o' the sun-god — dear, I say!"

"Proper conclusion for a beast to draw!"

"One thing is certain: there's no laughing now, As out thou bearest the poor dead old man!"

"Die when thou wilt, thou wilt die infamous!"

"And once dead, whether famed or infamous, I shall not care!"

"Alas and yet again! How full is age of impudency!"

"True! Thou could'st not call thy young wife impudent: She was found foolish merely."

"Get thee gone! And let me bury this my dead!"

"I go. Thou buriest her whom thou didst murder first; Whereof there's some account to render yet Those kinsfolk by the marriage-side! I think, Brother Akastos may be classed with me, Among the beasts, not men, if he omit Avenging upon thee his sister's blood!"

"Go to perdition, with thy housemate too! Grow old all childlessly, with child alive, Just as ye merit! for to me at least, Beneath the same roof ne'er do ye return. And did I need by heralds' help renounce The ancestral hearth, I had renounced the same! But we — since this woe, lying at our feet I' the path, is to be borne — let us proceed And lay the body on the pyre."

I think, What, thro' this wretched wrangle, kept the man From seeing clear — beside the cause I gave — Was, that the woe, himself described as full I' the path before him, there did really lie — Not roll into the abyss of dead and gone. How, with Alkestis present, calmly crowned, Was she so irrecoverable yet — The bird, escaped, that's just on bough above. The flower, let flutter half-way down the brink? Not so detached seemed lifelessness from life But — one dear stretch beyond all straining yet — And he might have her at his heart once more, When, in the critical minute, up there comes The father and the fact, to trifle time! "To the pyre!" an instinct prompted: pallid face, And passive arm and pointed foot, O friends, — When these no longer shall absorb the sight, Admetos will begin to see indeed Who the true foe was, where the blows should fall!

So, the old selfish Pheres went his way, Case-hardened as he came; and left the youth, (Only half selfish now, since sensitive) To go on learning by a light the more, As friends moved off, renewing dirge the while: "Unhappy in thy daring! Noble dame, Best of the good, farewell! With favouring face May Hermes the infernal, Hades too, Receive thee! And if there, — ay, there, — some touch Of further dignity await the good, Sharing with them, may'st thou sit throned by her The Bride of Hades, in companionship!"

Wherewith, the sad procession wound away, Made slowly for the suburb sepulchre. And lo, — while still one's heart, in time and tune, Paced after that symmetric step of Death Mute-marching, to the mind's eye, at the head O' the mourners — one hand pointing out their path With the long pale terrific sword we saw, The other leading, with grim tender grace, Alkestis quieted and consecrate, — Lo, life again knocked laughing at the door! The world goes on, goes ever, in and through, And out again o' the cloud. We faced about, Fronted the palace where the mid-hall-door Opened — not half, nor half of half, perhaps — Yet wide enough to let out light and life, And warmth, and bounty, and hope, and joy, at once. Festivity burst wide, fruit rare and ripe Crushed in the mouth of Bacchos, pulpy-prime, All juice and flavour, save one single seed Duly ejected from the God's nice lip, Which lay o' the red edge, blackly visible — To wit, a certain ancient servitor: On whom the festal jaws o' the palace shut, So, there he stood, a much-bewildered man. Stupid? Nay, but sagacious in a sort: Learned, life-long, i' the first outside of things, Though bat for blindness to what lies beneath And needs a nail-scratch ere 't is laid you bare. This functionary was the trusted one We saw deputed by Admetos late To lead in Herakles and help him, soul And body, to such snatched repose, snapped-up Sustainment, as might do away the dust O' the last encounter, knit each nerve anew For that next onset sure to come at cry O' the creature next assailed, — nay, should it prove Only the creature that came forward now To play the critic upon Herakles!

"Many the guests" — so he soliloquized In musings burdensome to breast before, When it seemed not too prudent, tongue should wag — "Many, and from all quarters of this world, The guests I now have known frequent our house, For whom I spread the banquet; but than this, Never a worse one did I yet receive At the hearth here! One who seeing, first of all, The master's sorrow, entered gate the same, And had the hardihood to house himself. Did things stop there! But, modest by no means, He took what entertainment lay to hand, Knowing of our misfortune, — did we fail In aught of the fit service, urged us serve Just as a guest expects! And in his hands Taking the ivied goblet, drinks and drinks The unmixed product of black mother-earth, Until the blaze o' the wine went round about And warmed him: then he crowns with myrtle sprigs His head, and howls discordance — two-fold lay Was thereupon for us to listen to — This fellow singing, namely, nor restrained A jot by sympathy with sorrows here — While we o' the household mourned our mistress — mourned, That is to say, in silence — never showed The eyes, which we kept wetting, to the guest — For there Admetos was imperative. And so, here am I helping make at home A guest, some fellow ripe for wickedness, Robber or pirate, while she goes her way Out of our house: and neither was it mine To follow in procession, nor stretch forth Hand, wave my lady dear a last farewell, Lamenting who to me and all of us Domestics was a mother: myriad harms She used to ward away from every one, And mollify her husband's ireful mood. I ask then, do I justly hate or no This guest, this interloper on our grief?"

"Hate him and justly!" Here's the proper judge Of what is due to the house from Herakles! This man of much experience saw the first O' the feeble duckings-down at destiny, When King Admetos went his rounds, poor soul, A-begging somebody to be so brave As die for one afraid to die himself — "Thou, friend? Thou, love? Father or mother, then! None of you? What, Alkestis must Death catch? O best of wives, one woman in the world! But nowise droop: our prayers may still assist: Let us try sacrifice; if those avail Nothing and Gods avert their countenance, Why, deep and durable the grief will be!" AVhereat the house, this worthy at its head, Re-echoed "deep and durable our grief!" This sage, who justly hated Herakles, Did he suggest once "Rather I than she!" Admonish the Turannos — "Be a man! Bear thine own burden, never think to thrust Thy fate upon another, and thy wife! It were a dubious gain could death be doomed That other, yet no passionatest plea Of thine, to die instead, have force with fate; Seeing thou lov'st Alkestis: what were life Unlighted by the loved one? But to live — Not merely live unsolaced by some thought, Some word so poor — yet solace all the same — As 'Thou i' the sepulchre, Alkestis, say! Would I, or would not I, to save thy life, Die, and die on, and die for ever more?' No! but to read red-written up and down The world 'This is the sunshine, this the shade, This is some pleasure of earth, sky or sea, Due to that other, dead that thou may'st live!' Such were a covetable gain to thee? Go die, fool, and be happy while 't is time!" One word of counsel in this kind, methinks, Had fallen to better purpose than Ai, ai, Pheu, pheu, e, papai, and a pother of praise O' the best, best, best one! Nothing was to hate In king Admetos, Pheres, and the rest O' the household down to his heroic self! This was the one thing hateful: Herakles Had flung into the presence, frank and free, Out from the labour into the repose, Ere out again and over head and ears I' the heart of labour, all for love of men: Making the most o' the minute, that the soul And body, strained to height a minute since, Might lie relaxed in joy, this breathing-space, For man's sake more than ever; till the bow, Restrung o' the sudden, at first cry for help, Should send some unimaginable shaft True to the aim and shatteringly through The plate-mail of a monster, save man so. He slew the pest o' the marish yesterday: To-morrow he would bit the flame-breathed stud That fed on man's-flesh: and this day between — Because he held it natural to die, And fruitless to lament a thing past cure, So, took his fill of food, wine, song and flowers, Till the new labour claimed him soon enough, — "Hate him and justly!"

True, Charopé mine! The man surmised not Herakles lay hid I' the guest; or knowing it, was ignorant That still his lady lived — for Herakles; Or else judged lightness needs must indicate This or the other caitiff quality: And therefore — had been right if not so wrong! For who expects the sort of him will scratch A nail's depth, scrape the surface just to see What peradventure underlies the same?

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Rh lust, was his only vigorous passion; and in the embraces of the wives and virgins of the city the Turkish slave forgot the dishonour of the emperor of the Romans. Andronicus, his eldest son, had formed, at Hadrianople, an intimate and guilty friendship with Sauzes, the son of Amurath; and the two youths conspired against the authority and lives of their parents. The presence of Amurath in Europe soon discovered and dissipated their rash counsels; and, after depriving Sauzes of his sight, the Ottoman threatened his vassal with the treatment of an accomplice and an enemy, unless he inflicted a similar punishment on his own son. Palæologus trembled and obeyed; and a cruel precaution involved in the same sentence the childhood and innocence of John, the son of the criminal. But the operation was so mildly, or so unskilfully, performed that the one retained the sight of an eye and the other was afflicted only with the infirmity of squinting. Thus excluded from the succession, the two princes were confined in the tower of Anema; and the piety of Manuel, the second son of the reigning monarch, was rewarded with the gift of the Imperial crown. But at the end of two years the turbulence of the Latins and the levity of the Greeks produced a revolution; and the two emperors were buried in the tower from whence the two prisoners were exalted to the throne. Another period of two years afforded Palæologus and Manuel the means of escape. It was contrived by the magic or subtlety of a monk, who was alternately named the angel or the devil. They fled to Scutari; their adherents armed in their cause; and the two Byzantine factions displayed the ambition and animosity with which Caesar and Pompey had disputed the empire of the world. The Roman world was now contracted to a corner of Thrace, between the Propontis and the Black Sea, about fifty miles in length and thirty in breadth; a space of ground not more extensive than the lesser principalities of Germany or Italy, if the remains of Constantinople had not still represented the wealth and populousness of a kingdom. To restore the public peace, it was found necessary to divide this fragment of the empire; and, while Palæologus and Manuel were left in possession of the capital, almost all that lay without the walls was ceded to the blind princes, who fixed their residence  at Rhodosto and Selybria. In the tranquil slumber of royalty,


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Rh and tried to whisper to him, he was on nettles instantly, hearing the quiver of laughter in my voice. He feared I might be heard, and that the feelings of the man for whom he had such regard might be wounded. He promptly requested me to smother my laughter in the blankets, and there I shook with merriment, perhaps even greater because of the relief I experienced in finding something to counteract the gloom of the preceding hours. And if I owned to telling afterwards that the old officer's theory and practice were one, it could not be called a great breach of hospitality, for he gloried in what he called advanced ideas, and strove to wear the martyr's crown that all pioneers in new and extreme beliefs crowd on their heads.

Our friend remained with us until the camp was inhabitable and the regular order of military duties was resumed. Paths and roads were made through the snow, and it was a great relief to be again in the scenes of busy life. We did not soon forget our introduction to Dakota. After that we understood why the frontiersman builds his stable near the house; we also comprehended then when they told us that they did not dare to cross in a blizzard from the house to the stable-door without keeping hold of a rope tied fast to the latch as a guide for their safe return when the stock was fed. Afterwards, when even our cool-headed soldiers lost their way and wandered aimlessly near their quarters, and when found were dazed in speech and look, the remembrance of that first storm, with the density of the down-coming snow, was a solution to us of their bewilderment.

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408 Isidore, Archbishop of Russia, made cardinal, vii., 137 and note; imprisoned, ib.; epistle of, to Nicholas V., 163 note; Papal legate, 175; his escape, 196 and note.

Isidore of Badajoz, v., 472 note.

Isidore of Pelusium, iii., 201 note; friend of Cyril of Alexandria, v., 107 and note.

Isidore of Seville, ii., 217 note, 266 note; on passage of the Vandals, iii., 401 note; monastic rule of, iv., 66 note, 67 note; on Sisebut, 96 note; History of the Visigoths, 141 note.

Isidore, pupil of Proclus, iv., 266; Life of, ''ib. note.; leaves Athens, ib.''

Isidore, the Milesian, architect, iv., 244.

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 much better off than those who have recently caused their tythes to be valued. Most of the original valuations are already exhausted, and of course, the burden of augmentations falls much heavier upon proprietors whose tythes have been lately valued, than upon those who are possessed of the first valuations. In no case, however, can stipend exceed the amount of free tythes, and in numerous instances it does not amount to one half of it, the balance remaining with the proprietor as a fresh fund for a future augmentation. The proprietors of land may have some cause to complain of the Scottish tythe system, as they, in the first instance, were obliged to buy their tythes from the Titular, or Lords of Erection, at nine years' purchase of their proven value, and are now subjected to pay the whole of that value to the clergyman, provided the court of tythes or teinds in Scotland considers an augmentation of stipend to that extent as expedient and necessary. To the cultivator of land, or, in other words, to the improvement of the country, these things, however, are not of the slightest prejudice. Hence a rapid progress in agricultural improvement, for a century back, has taken place in every quarter of Scotland, which could not possibly have occurred, had tythe in kind, or its value in money, according to annual valuations, been paid by the occupiers.

Q. 3d. In what manner was the commutation effected? Did the Kirk resist?

A. The commutation, or, more properly speaking, the regulation of tythe in Scotland took place in 1633, in the way already described, though it was many years after before it could be carried completely into execution. The Kirk did not resist, because, in point of fact, its members, with the exception of a few Bishops, were not in possession of the tythes when the submission was made to King Charles. By the decreet arbitral afterwards pronounced, it is believed, the Kirk was very much benefited, for it secured every clergyman in a competent stipend, so far as the teinds or tythes in his parish were sufficient for that purpose. In short, a provision far more liberal than allowed to the Presbyterian clergy at any former period was at that time bestowed upon them a provision far exceeding what is given to the clergy of England; for though the dignitaries of that church are amply provisioned, it is well known that the great majority of those who bear the heat and burden of the day are by no means favourably dealt with.

Q. 4th. Have the landholders of Scotland derived advantage from the regulation of the tythe system?

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Rh He can be conscious that he looks his best in a perfectly fitting uniform, and that he is never out of date.

The general and I went into the hotel and took a room for the night of the ball. Such good-humor, confusion, and jolly preparations as we had, for the young officers came to borrow the corner of our glass to put on the finishing touches, carrying their neckties, studs, sleeve-buttons, and gloves in their hands. The aigret had been taken from the helmet and placed across their broad chests, brightening still more their shining new uniforms. I remember with what pride the "plebs" called our attention to the double row of buttons which the change in the uniform now gave to all, without regard to rank. The lieutenants had heretofore only been allowed one row of buttons, and they declared that an Apollo even could not do justice to his figure with a coat fastened in so monotonous and straight up-and-down a manner.

Yankton, like all new towns, was chiefly settled with newly-married people, who ornamented their bits of front yards with shining new perambulators. The mothers had little afternoon parades, proud enough to trundle their own babies. If any one's father ever came from the States to a Western town, we all felt at liberty to welcome his gray hairs. There were but few young girls, but that night must have been a memorable one for them. All the town, and even the country people, came to the ball. The mayor and common council received us, and the governor opened the festivities. We crossed to the hotel to our supper. We were asked to sit down to the table, and the abundance

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Character and Coronation of Petrarch — Restoration of the Freedom and Government of Rome by the Tribune Rienzi — His Virtues and Vices, is Expulsion and Death — Return of the Popes from Avignon — Great Schism of the West — Re-Union of the Latin Church — Last Struggles of Roman Liberty — Statutes of Rome — Final Settlement of the Ecclesiastical State


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22 snow-packed door, to admit a half dozen soldiers who, becoming bewildered by the snow, had been saved by the faint light we had placed in the window. After that several came, and two were badly frozen. We were in despair of finding any way of warming them, as there was no bedding, and, of course, no fire, until I remembered the carpets which were sewed up in bundles and heaped in one corner, where the boxes were, and which we were not to use until the garrison was reached. Spreading them out, we had enough to roll up each wanderer as he came. The frozen men were in so exhausted a condition that they required immediate attention. Their sufferings were intense, and I could not forgive myself for not having something with which to revive them. The general never tasted liquor, and we were both so well always we did not even keep it for use in case of sickness.

I saw symptoms of that deadly stupor which is the sure precursor of freezing, when I fortunately remembered a bottle of alcohol which had been brought for the spirit-lamps. Mary objected to using the only means by which we could make coffee for ourselves, but the groans and exhausted and haggard faces of the men won her over, and we saw them revive under the influence of the fiery liquid. Poor fellows! They afterwards lost their feet, and some of their fingers had also to be amputated. The first soldier who had reached us unharmed, except from exhaustion, explained that they had all attempted to find their way to town, and the storm had completely overcome them. Fortunately one had clung to a bag of hard-tack, which was all they

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611–647] This was in the beginning, and shall be

Now and eternally,

Not here or there, but everywhere,

A law of misery that shall not spare.

For Hope, that wandereth wide, comforting many a head,

Entangleth many more with glamour of desire:

Unknowing they have trode the fire.

Wise was the famous word of one who said,

‘Evil oft seemeth goodness to the mind

An angry God doth blind.’

Few are the days that such as he

May live untroubled of calamity.

Lo, Haemon, thy last offspring, now is come,

Lamenting haply for the maiden’s doom.

Say, is he mourning o’er her young life lost,

Fiercely indignant for his bridal crossed?

. We shall know soon, better than seers could teach us.

Can it be so, my son, that thou art brought

By mad distemperature against thy sire,

On hearing of the irrevocable doom

Passed on thy promised bride? Or is thy love

Thy father’s, be his actions what they may?

. I am thine, father, and will follow still

Thy good directions; nor would I prefer

The fairest bride to thy wise government.

. That, O my son! should be thy constant mind,

In all to bend thee to thy father’s will.

Therefore men pray to have around their hearths

Obedient offspring, to requite their foes

With harm, and honour whom their father loves;

But he whose issue proves unprofitable,

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 which it wrings out delirious and passionate outcries at the very moment when you are lauding your coolness and magnanimity.

And now, before parting with you for a month, allow me to return you my best thanks, for the very kind and condescending permission which, in a late Number of the Examiner, you gave me to come forward and avow myself. This was more than kind it was generous. I need fear nothing from you so you inform me. But it would seem as if there were some other formidable Champion into whose hands you would wish slyly to deliver me. Of him, as of you, my contempt is perfect. As you got him to praise you and your verses in the Edinburgh Review, so may you get him at small cost to defend you in a Sunday Newspaper. But let him have a cooling draught before he enters the lists. I observed him lately breaking all the laws of chivalry, by using foul language to some humble squire who had spied a pimple on his nose. Give him a visor and send him forth to the battle. Choose for his shield-bearer the flower of the Cockney youth. Have warm possets and salves ready against his return from the combat, and one or two of your own "Nepheliads" to bring some "bubbling freshness" to his green wounds. Let this man of steel come at his leisure. You at least are disposed of. True that you called out "a foul blow," but it has been decided against you by impartial umpires, and it is evident that you have not weighed your metal before you rushed into the battle. Your imprudence has been great; had it not been the offspring of so much conceit I should have disdained to punish it. The die is cast. It is now too late to talk of retreating.

And now, for the present, I know not that I have much more to add. That you have been irritated to a state of lunacy by my Critiques on the Cockney School of Poetry, of which you are the founder, is proved by your raving and incoherent denials. You, who have libelled so many men, ought not to have considered yourself sacred from the hand of vengeance. Above all persons living, you, the Editor of the Examiner, who have so often run a muck, stabbing men, women, and children, should, if unable to defend yourself when the avenger came, have Letter from Z. to Leigh Hunt. had the sense and fortitude at least to endure punishment with decent composure. But your whole mind seems to be one universal sore of vanity, and the pinch of a finger and thumb causes you to shriek out, as if you were broken on the wheel, and to burst into insane invectives with the very avowal of silence on your pale quivering lips. Silent you cannot remain; and when you speak out against me, what is it you say? Nothing. Your abilities, which on some subjects are considerable, then utterly desert you; and instead of rousing yourself from your lair, like some noble beast when attacked by the hunter, you roll yourself round like a sick hedge-hog, that has crawled out into the "crisp" gravel walk round your box at Hampstead, and oppose only the feeble prickles of your hunch'd-up back to the kicks of one who wishes less to hurt you, than to drive you into your den.

The question at issue between Leigh Hunt and Z. is not to be decided by raving on your side, or contempt on mine. It is to be decided by that portion of the public who have read your works, and, if need be, the charges I have brought against them. You alone, of all the writers in verse of the present day, of any pretensions, real or imaginary, to the character of poet, have been the secret and invidious foe of virtue. No woman who has not either lost her.chastity,or is desirous of losing it, ever read "The Story of Rimini" without the flushings of shame and self-reproach. A brother would tear it indignantly from a sister's hand, and the husband who saw his wife's eyes resting on it with any other expression than of contempt or disgust, would have reason to look with perplexing agony on the countenances of his children.

You may, henceforth, endeavour to remain silent, and it may be well for you that you do so. But I shall hereafter have much to say to you. Your vulgar vanity, your audacious arrogance, your conceited coxcombry, your ignorant pedantry, all the manifold sins and iniquities of Cockneyism lie spread before me as in a map; and I will not part with your Majesty till I have shewn your crown, which you imagine is formed of diamonds and pearls, to be wholly composed of .paste and parchment, and


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Rh had had to eat. At last the day came, but so darkened by the snow it seemed rather a twilight. The drifts were on three sides of us like a wall. The long hours dragged themselves away, leaving the general too weak to rise, and in great need of hot, nourishing food. I grew more and more terrified at our utterly desolate condition and his continued illness, though fortunately he did not suffer. He was too ill, and I too anxious, to eat the fragments that remained in the luncheon-basket. The snow continued to come down in great swirling sheets, while the wind shook the loose window-casings and sometimes broke in the door. When night came again and the cold increased, I believed that our hours were numbered. I missed the voice of the courageous Mary, for she had sunk down in a corner exhausted for want of sleep, while Ham had been completely demoralized from the first. Occasionally I melted a little place on the frozen window-pane, and saw that the drifts were almost level with the upper windows on either side, but that the wind had swept a clear space before the door. During the night the sound of the tramping of many feet rose above the roar of the storm. A great drove of mules rushed up to the sheltered side of the house. Their brays had a sound of terror as they pushed, kicked, and crowded themselves against our little cabin. For a time they huddled together, hoping for warmth, and then despairing, they made a mad rush away, and were soon lost in the white wall of snow beyond. All night long the neigh of a distressed horse, almost human in its appeal, came to us at intervals. The door was pried open once, thinking it might be some

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24 fellow-creature in distress. The strange, wild eyes of the horse peering in for help, haunted me long afterwards. Occasionally a lost dog lifted up a howl of distress under our window, but before the door could be opened to admit him he had disappeared in the darkness. When the night was nearly spent I sprang again to the window with a new horror, for no one, until he hears it for himself, can realize what varied sounds animals make in the excitement of peril. A drove of hogs, squealing and grunting, were pushing against the house, and the door which had withstood so much had to be held to keep it from being broken in. It was almost unbearable to hear the groans of the soldiers over their swollen and painful feet, and know that we could do nothing to ease them. To be in the midst of such suffering, and yet have no way of ameliorating it; to have shelter, and yet to be surrounded by dumb beasts appealing to us for help, was simply terrible. Every minute seemed a day; every hour a year. When daylight came I dropped into an exhausted slumber, and was awakened by Mary standing over our bed with a tray of hot breakfast. I asked if help had come, and finding it had not, of course, I could not understand the smoking food. She told me that feeling the necessity of the general's eating, it had come to her in the night-watches that she would cut up the large candles she had pilfered from the cars, and try if she could cook over the many short pieces placed close together, so as to make a large flame. The result was hot coffee and some bits of the steak she had brought from town,

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Thus the citizens of Athens spoke to one another as they left the place, and the blue twilight was falling. They had determined to kill the restless gadfly in the hope that the countenances of the gods would shine again. And yet—before their souls arose the mild figure of the singular philosopher. There were some citizens who recalled how courageously he had shared their troubles and dangers at Potidæa; how he alone had prevented them from committing the sin of unjustly executing the generals after the victory over the Arginusæ; how he alone had dared to raise his voice against the tyrants who had had fifteen hundred people put to death, speaking to the people on the market-place concerning shepherds and their sheep.

"Is not he a good shepherd," he asked, "who guards his flock and watches over its increase? Or is it the work of the good shepherd to reduce the number of his sheep and disperse them, and of the good ruler to do the same with his people? Men of Athens, let us investigate this question!"

And at this question of the solitary, undefended philosopher, the faces of the tyrants paled, while the eyes of the youths kindled with the fire of just wrath and indignation.

Thus, when on dispersing after the sentence the Athenians recalled all these things of Socrates, their hearts were oppressed with heavy doubt.

"Have we not done a cruel wrong to the son of Sophroniscus?"

But then the good Athenians looked upon the harbour and the sea, and in the red glow of the dying day they saw the purple sails of the sharp-keeled ship, sent to the Delian festival, shimmering in the distance on the blue Pontus. The ship would not return until the expiration of a month, and the Athenians recollected that during this time no blood might be shed in Athens, whether the blood of the innocent or the guilty. A month, moreover, has many days and still more hours. Supposing the son of Sophroniscus had been unjustly condemned, who would hinder his escaping from the prison, especially since he had numerous friends to help him? Was it so difficult for the rich Plato, for


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ROOSA, rōō'sȧ, (1838— ). An American physician, born at Bethel, Sullivan County, N. Y. He graduated in 1860 at the medical school of the University of New York, was assistant-surgeon in the Fifth New York Volunteers' three-months' troops, became resident surgeon at the New York Hospital in 1862, and in 1864, after study in Europe, began practice in New York City. From 1863 to 1882 he was professor of diseases of the eye and ear in the medical school of the University of the City of New York (now New York University), and from 1875 to 1880 held a similar chair in the University of Vermont (Burlington). In

1888 he was appointed professor of diseases of the eye in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, of whose faculty he also became president. He was one of the founders of the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital. Among his original works are: A Treatise on the Ear (1866) and On the Necessity of Wearing Glasses (1877).


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ROOSEVELT, rō'z’-vĕlt, (1767-1854). An American inventor. He was born in New York City. His claim to distinction is based upon his invention of the vertical paddle-wheel for use in steamboats. As early as the Revolution he used the idea in a small boat in which there were two side-wheels that were turned by springs. In 1797, together with R. R. Livingston and John Stevens, he built a steamboat; but, as contrary to his advice, chains and floats were used instead of paddle-wheels, the boat proved a failure. Financial difficulties prevented him from following out his idea, and ultimately Fulton adopted it with success. In 1809 Roosevelt, after considerable controversy with Fulton, entered into a partnership with him for the introduction of steamboats on western waters. Two years later Roosevelt built at Pittsburg the boat New Orleans, and successfully navigated her down the Ohio and the Mississippi to New Orleans. Consult Latrobe, “A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat,” in vol. v. of the Maryland Historical Society Fund Publication (Baltimore, 1871).


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ROOSEVELT, (1829—). An American author and reformer. He was born in New York City, and was the son of Nicholas van Schaick Roosevelt and an uncle of Theodore Roosevelt. He was admitted to the bar in 1850, and practiced with success for many years. In 1867 he brought about the formation of the New York State Fishery Commission, and until 1888, when he became United States Minister to Holland, was one of its commissioners. He first entered active politics as an opponent of the Tweed ‘Ring,’ and as an organizer of the ‘Committee of Seventy,’ as vice-president of the Reform Club, and as an editor of the Citizen, he did much to break up that organization. In 1870 he was elected to the lower House of Congress, and served there with credit. He published: The Game Birds of North America (1860); The Game Birds of the North (1860); Superior Fishing (1866); Florida and the Game Water Birds (1868); and Progressive Petticoats (1871).


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ROOSEVELT, Author:Theodore Roosevelt (1858—). The twenty-sixth President of the United States, born in New York City, October 27, 1858. He was educated at Harvard University, where he graduated in 1880, and afterwards attended the law school of Columbia University. He turned early to politics and was elected to the New York Assembly in 1881 as an opponent of the Tammany Hall machine. There, for more effective service, he allied himself with the Republican minority, although not a member of that party, and for three terms, 1882, -83, -84, was its leader. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1884 and in the same year removed to Medora, N. Dak., where he conducted a ranch for two years. As the Republican candidate for Mayor of New York in 1886, he opposed Henry George, Single-Taxer, and Abram S. Hewitt, Democrat, the successful candidate. From 1889 to 1895 he was a member of the United States Civil Service Commission, being appointed by President Harrison and retained by President Cleveland. In the latter year he became president of the Police Board in New York City and served for two years, attaining wide prominence by the energetic methods employed by him to eradicate evils existing in the system. President McKinley called him to national service in 1897, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and as such his work was of signal value in hurrying the navy to readiness for the war with Spain. In his desire for field service in the war he resigned from the department in April, 1898, and was active in organizing the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, popularly known as ‘Roosevelt's Rough Riders.’ He was first lieutenant-colonel and afterward colonel, being promoted for gallantry in the action at Las Guasimas, Cuba.

When his command was mustered out of the military service in the summer of 1898, Colonel Roosevelt returned to private life just in time to begin an active itinerant campaign as the Republican nominee for Governor of New York, which resulted in his election over Augustus Van Wyck, the Democratic candidate, by a plurality of 18,079. His first important act as Governor was to investigate the State canal system, concerning which there had been much talk of fraud in the preceding administration. The agitation of this question continued throughout his term, the net result being the appropriation by an unsympathetic Legislature of $200,000 for a new survey and an accurate estimate of the proposed improvements. Other conspicuous acts of the Governor were in connection with the enactment of the Ford Franchise Law, providing for the taxation of corporation franchises, whereby he incurred the enmity of some of the largest corporate interests; the extension of the civil service system to include many offices hitherto under the control of political influence; and the passage of the Davis Law fixing the minimum annual salary of school-teachers at $600, and providing for proportionate advances for length of service. With the approach of the State and national conventions of 1900, the position of Governor Roosevelt in the Republican Party grew both interesting and involved. He had become a leading personality in the party, although hostile to some sections of it and dangerous to others, and was known to be ambitious. Against his expressed desire for a second term as Governor, in which to complete the reforms barely begun, he was nominated for Vice-President on the ticket with President McKinley, and was elected in November of the same year. On September 14, 1901, at the death of McKinley, Roosevelt became his successor. Shrewd political commentators had construed the nomination of Roosevelt for Vice-President as an intrigue of party leaders to insure his political extinction in that inconspicuous office. If such a plan existed, chance frustrated it by the death of President McKinley.

President Roosevelt conducted his administration as a continuation of McKinley's, of whose principles he was the avowed conservator. The plans for trust and tariff legislation were adhered to, particularly in reference to reciprocity treaties with other countries. The Philippine policy was maintained and a partially autonomous government was provided for the islands. Also, the construction of an Isthmian canal was

authorized, and the connection of the Philippine Islands with the United States was accomplished by means of a submarine cable. All this was a heritage of the McKinley administration. Legislation identified more distinctively with Roosevelt himself dealt with the revision of the country's financial system, the increase of the navy as the best means of preserving peaceful relations between this and other powers, and the establishment of a permanent Census Bureau and of a Department of Commerce and Labor, whose Secretary is a member of the Cabinet. Of the personal side of his administration two instances are sufficiently characteristic — his action in the anthracite coal strike of 1902 and his treatment of the negro question. His calling together of representatives of both parties in the anthracite trouble and causing them to agree to the appointment of an arbitration commission was an act without precedent in the history of his office and was performed in the public behalf, to remedy a ‘national evil.’ The appointment of a negro, Dr. Crum, to be collector of the port of Charleston, S. C., and the selection of negroes for some minor offices aroused indignant protest from the South and other parts of the country, despite which the President preserved a steadfast position — that in the question of fitness for an office color did not have a part. During his administration President Roosevelt was the most active and conspicuous figure in American public life. To his fearlessness of action and speech, and his independence of counsel, as shown by many of his official appointments, may be ascribed the continuous apprehension with which the leaders of his party viewed him, but for these same qualities the generality of the people gave him unstinted praise.

In addition to his political prominence Mr. Roosevelt is the author of the following works: The Naval War of 1812 (1882); Life of Thomas Hart Benton (1887) and Life of Gouverneur Morris (1888) in the “American Statesmen” series; Ranch Life and Hunting Trail (1888); History of New York City (1891), in the “Historic Towns” series; The Winning of the West (4 vols., 1889-96); Essays on Practical Politics (1892); The Wilderness Hunter (1893); American Political Ideals (1897); The Rough Riders (1899); Life of Oliver Cromwell (1900); The Strenuous Life (1900); and, in collaboration with others, The Deer (1902).


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 order to avoid delay preferred to send lists of their cargo in advance and to make reciprocal arrangements for rapid clearance. It was, however, only a single weapon in the armoury of economic pressure. Control of bunker coal, shipping insurance, censorship and cables, all found their place there, and formed the basis of agreements with large corporations of merchants formed for the purpose, such as the Netherlands Oversea Trust (N.O.T.) for Holland, the Danish Merchants Guild for Denmark, the Société Suisse de Surveillance Economique (S.S.S.) for Switzerland. Sweden took a different line and made all such agreements illegal, maintaining this attitude till April 1917. She was beyond the reach of British sea power, and the Lulea iron-ore trade, though attacked with considerable effect by British submarines in 1915–6, remained the principal stay of the German munition industry.

The fundamental problem of a blockade of this type is to discriminate between enemy and neutral destination, and the two principal systems of discrimination may be termed the “Intelligence” or “evidential” system and the “Rationing” or statistical system. In the first, particular cargoes or items in a cargo become suspect if there is any evidence of enemy dealings. In the second, the whole mass of importation becomes suspect immediately it rises above the normal average of imports. The blockade emphasized the weakness of the former system, which required enormous labour and specialized knowledge to keep track of possible enemy dealings, and as early as Jan. 1915 the “Rationing” or statistical system was being advocated, and it was proposed that careful account should be kept of the imports of all important commodities, and when the import figures to any neutral country rose high above the average for no accountable cause, a plea for confiscation should arise. To keep these statistics, which were largely based on the manifests, the War Trade Statistical Department in London came into being, and in 1916 the principle of rationing was adopted by the Minister of Blockade as the fundamental tenet of his system. But here a difficulty arose which was never completely solved. Legal sanction for condemnation was difficult to obtain on the basis of figures alone, for statistics supplied no direct evidence of enemy destination and the system had to be largely operated by means of assurances and agreements. But, in spite of difficulties, by the middle of 1916 the blockade was becoming really effective. It began with an excellent (but specious) code and no machinery; it ended with excellent machinery and no code.

There can be no question that the World War has greatly modified our conceptions of blockade. One of its most important lessons is that discrimination between belligerent and neutral destination is possible and can be enforced without friction, if only the principle be admitted that a belligerent who controls the sea is entitled to ask for evidence or assurance of genuine neutral trade. Mercantile coöperation can then be invoked with official approval to supply the machinery for such assurance. This does not mean the legal prohibition of contraband trade, but it means that such trade would gravitate into particular ships which would have to run the blockade. As the sphere of agreements and economic action extended, the rôle of the fleet diminished, though there still remained certain sections of trade either immune from attack or which could be reached only by the fleet. Examples of such sections of trade were the German iron-ore trade with Lulea in the Baltic Sea, and the iron-ore trade with Narvik in Norway. A score or so of German ships were engaged in the latter, passing down the Norwegian coast inside Norwegian waters, but there were two areas, one off Statlandet and the other off Ekersund, where they had to leave neutral waters, and these were periodically visited, though not permanently patrolled. Ships were also constantly passing from Rotterdam to Germany, and it was not till 1917 that determined efforts were made to stop this trade.

In 1917, when the United States came into the war, the blockade underwent a great change. The Allied Powers in conjunction with the United States now possessed an almost complete control of many of the principal commodities, and the combined pressure they exerted was so tremendous that the goods never got as far as the sea, and the blockade was practically transformed into an embargo.

The final cutting edge of the blockade in 1917 and 1918 was enforced not at sea but on the custom house quays at Boston, Liverpool and New York. The ships of the 10th C. S. left their stormy beats to do convoy work. The Downs and Kirkwall languished, and the control services were transferred to Halifax, Jamaica and Sierra Leone.

The fact that many forms of economic pressure contributed to the blockade must not blind us to the fact that they were to a large extent aspects of sea power. Thus, bunker control, a powerful lever of the blockade, was enforced by the British Customs and Board of Trade, but the British coaling bases abroad had been won by sea power and remained dependent on sea power. Where the arm of the British navy could not stretch the blockade broke down. The frontiers of Rumania were impervious to it and enabled Germany to hold out during 1917. To the last the Lulea iron-ore trade remained a menace, for sea power could not reach so far. In its bulk the blockade remained an expression of sea power, with the imminence of the Grand Fleet going and coming ceaselessly behind it in the North Sea.

 BLOEMFONTEIN (see 4.74). Pop. (1918): whites 15,631, coloured (estimated) 16,000. The most centrally situated town in South Africa, Bloemfontein is the great market for the agricultural and pastoral produce of the Free State. The annual sale of pure-bred stud stock, held in Sept., is the principal fixture of the kind in South Africa; in 1920 the pedigree stock sold realized £283,000. The growth of the town during 1910–20 was largely due to the progressive policy of the municipality, which provided it with an ample supply of water, electric light, an electric trackless tramway system, modern sewerage system and other public services. In 1918 the rateable value of the municipality was £3,895,000, its revenue £182,000 and its indebtedness £803,000.

Among modern buildings are the new Law Courts (in the classical style), the National museum, the Normal and Polytechnic Colleges, Grey University College, the Government Buildings (which replace those burned down in 1908) and the Legislative Council Chambers (the seat of the Appellate Court). A monument to the women and children who died in concentration camps during the war of 1899–1902 was erected in 1913 near the Show ground. The principal workshops of the Union railways are situated in the town of Bloemfontein.

Grey College, incorporated as a university college in 1910, has been since 1918 the principal constituent college of the university of South Africa. Besides the university college the institution includes high schools for boys and girls, and the buildings stand in grounds covering 300 acres. At Glen, 14 m. N., is an agricultural college, opened in 1919, with an experimental farm of 4,000 acres. There is a military station at Tempe, 4 m. from the centre of the town, and here is the Defense College for Officers.

Its central position makes Bloemfontein a favourite meeting-place for conventions and congresses, educational, agricultural and political. Here was held, in the autumn of 1920, the conference which sought, and failed, to find a basis for vereeniging (union) between the two great Dutch parties in the Union, the South African and the Nationalist.

 BLOMFIELD, SIR REGINALD (1856– ), English architect and author, was born Dec. 20 1856 at Aldington in Kent, of which parish his father was rector. He was educated at Haileybury and at Oxford as a scholar of Exeter College. He took his degree with a first class in literae humaniores in 1879. On leaving Oxford he was for three years in the architectural office of his uncle, Sir Arthur Blomfield, and also studied in the Royal Academy School of Architecture. He was here largely influenced by Norman Shaw, to whose work and example, as also to those of Philip Webb, his own work owed much. After travelling abroad in 1883, he started a practice in London in 1884. He became one of the secretaries of the Art Workers Guild, and also of the Arts and Crafts Society. The Gothic and Mediaeval tradition of his uncle’s office had but little effect on his work as an architect, which rather follows the classical spirit and the inspiration derived from the later Renaissance architecture of England. This is shown notably in his country-houses, amongst which are Moundsmere, Basingstoke; Wyphurst, Cranleigh; and Uretham Hall, Norfolk. He also carried out

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RORER, Sarah Tyson, American teacher of domestic science: b. Richboro, Pa., 18 Oct. 1849. She was graduated from the academy at East Aurora, N. Y., and was married in 1871 to W. A. Rorer. She was for many years principal of the Philadelphia School of Domestic Science, and she lectured widely. She was editor and part owner of Table Talk in 1886-92, edited Household News in 1893-97 and was later on the editorial staff of the Ladies' Home Journal. She was a director of the Pennsylvania Chautauqua School of Domestic Science. Her publications include ‘Mrs. Rorer's New Cook Book’; ‘How to Use a Chafing Dish’; ‘Colonial Cookery’; ‘A Book on Diet and Cookery,’ etc.


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RORIC FIGURES (Fr. figures roriques, from Lat. ros, dew), a name applied to certain curious images rendered manifest upon breathing on polished solid surfaces, when these have been previously exposed to contact or close proximity of the objects thus represented, and at the same time have been acted upon by light, heat or electricity. The singularity of these phenomena is, that they consist usually in the production at the first of a sort of latent or invisible image, but this may afterward be developed or brought out, somewhat in the manner of photography. Consult Chwolson, O. D., ‘Lehrbuch der Physik’ (1902).


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Rh Baker, of the Third regiment, rushed upon the Federals and captured many prisoners. The Federals, however, rallied, and in turn captured Colonel Baker.

The famous Kautz-Wilson raid for the destruction of the southward railroads was the occasion of severe cavalry activity and battles. At "Blacks and Whites," Gen. W. H. F. Lee managed to get between the two Federal columns on the 23d of June. General Bearing was in the lead. His brigade, a small one, included the Fourth and Sixth North Carolina cavalry. This brigade was about to be overpowered when Barringer's brigade galloped to its relief. Major Cowles dismounted the First regiment and sent that to the guns. Maj. W. P. Roberts, of the Second regiment, reached the Federal rear, and the battle was sharp for some hours. At nightfall the Federals retired. Col. C. M. Andrews, one of North Carolina's best cavalry officers, was killed.

At Staunton river bridge, guarded by Junior and Senior reserves and disabled soldiers, Kautz's attack was repulsed, Lee's cavalry attacking his rear. Col. H. E. Coleman, of the Twelfth North Carolina regiment, rendered gallant service in assisting the raw troops in the repulse of the cavalry division at this bridge. He was at home wounded and volunteered his services. So freely did he expose himself, that he was again wounded, but did not then leave the field. This raiding party before it reached Meade lost all its artillery, wagon trains, and hundreds of prisoners.


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