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Show THE INTER-MOUNTAIN REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13 1908. TILTONS TERCENTENARY DY CEORGE SETBEL S722 0272 = N the Sth day of December it will be S00 years since the second of English poets was born. Shakespeare stands first; next comes John Milton, and far be hind these two throng the lesser bards, Uke foothills around twin mountain peaks. Not only Christ's College, Cambridge, of Which the poet became an undergridunte at the age of 17, but many other Institutops of learning throughout tbe English Speaking world will celebrate this tercentenary of the author of "Paradise Lost." American has her share in it, for Milton had no small share to moulding the spirit of the Puritan fathers who settled New Hogland. It was due to Milton's Influence that Anglo-Saxon ideals of liberty hnre developed in the direction of true democ racy, rather than the licentious radicalism of Rousseau, Hence every civic, educatonal and HMterary corporation and instition may well unite to honor the memory of John Milton, who was born tn London 300 years ago, There -!8 no historicn! {Impossibility {n the thonght that Shakespeare, {n the last years of his life, on one of his visits to London, may have patted the bright looking youngster on the head, who Played about the entrance to the Mermaid Tarern, watching for the great Master Shakespenre, whos Playa everybody praised. The a Tavern, where Beo » and Milton was Shakespeare dled when A picture supposed fa who also wthasas ms that made boy. he Milton elght years of Milton at the age to by Cornellus one of otpeers SUNT ene looking Where was of pine Jansen, can be cheerful, though Pamphleteer, op the other hand, [ts sald to-have boasted that bis trenebant attacks had bastened the death of Salmastius. These ferce political bickering' bave been deplored by some admirers of MIlton, yet there Is renson to belleve that without baving become thus embrolied Thou, In our wonder and asteotshment. Hast built thyself a Urelong monument! to his | famous | | | | | the gentle outhor of "Lycldas" and "ll | Penseroso" could never have risen to the towerlng helghts of **Parndlse Lost" and picturesqueness."". That Milton cherished the memorles of that meeting with Gallleo Is shown by his allusion to the ‘'Tus- known wished scholar was hired by the Royalists to writebis a reply called "Defense of the of a ‘Defense King." Milton the Englisb seriou People." It sortment of was really personal a scurrilous as- Eee this meeting between the blind astrono mer nnd the poet, who was doomed to blindness, might Lave Inspired the painter who bas given us the pleture of Milton dictating "Paradise Lost' to bis daugh ters, to paint another pleture {nu which "truth need not bave been sacrificed to "Samson Agonistes." rr Could Dante written bis "Inferno" if be had a to His nage = whole host of Guelphs coosign to It? Poetical . and: aw ' bave | cnn's artist's‘ optic glass" 7 In the not | description of Sutan‘s shield whom be Achievement, bisbeccime mind eee t ble ot abuse. Milton wrote tivity'' when be "IL an a at pit. mode | | eames Penseroso"" early "Yycidas' All | well, our lie: seve the was blindness, at chief 44 at 20; of to 47. oe 24; and | two, when "Comus™ fettered in geuerntion, * the * midst In diminish took his of an I‘dolatrous | gnother year OF | "Cromon his || "Paradise eae to make sport before the did ber 2 ks | mr be it i oe cneeriad nEdte a ear 5 arty: The aes by the charge that be Lost" from the "Luct- Dutch poet Vondel, but this It vanishes when we bear the sonorous eloquence of the "godgifted organ-volce of England," as Tennyson apostrophized Milton. "This man cuts us all ont, and the anclents, too," said Dryden. Walter Savage Landor, in a quite Boythornian outburst, declared that "it may be doubted if the reator ever created one altogether so great." Taine saw io him "England's most best to alle | Splendid and most Sern eG was genuinely | Even Rie ete ee oel Sates t fe ¢onq of her. have ne so far as tg suppose that Some Milton deat mined his Eve a (Ist His (Domestic Troubles. PRE cars Te Eres eae Ee began before bis first honeymoon. wis | eon , ea oe ie ; falrly over-he was married three ne -probably had much to do with bis | ref Nidee OE alvicoe Haig his glory "Paradise bis daughters. Elizabeth | ter" of the third Mrs. Milton, was | Charge fs ananiek imeonitie Nest "AeARORRRTE cr Though per- | much as eee Goat: wns Inspired by Milton "Paradise it should Risnetace pry the Garuna to write bis "Mes- Lost" is not read as be, dcapite Ruskin's ceording ianto thyas promise | ed counsel, much of qpedch; Milton's phrase has passI think Infit providwhilst | iuto common How' mang, wb form anc . ing ue aa that 1 Mahe bave a a ia buerem ite es left (anenk he | that strength of this she claimed his property after his A death, but S the daughtersreithcon- | Wesakiad Stile container al It "the 1s Iiket from we BE: no trom; lessthe: reno sonnet: tested ttabte tier kane aan? OoH ow "L'Allegro Tr many "Dp, ath her victories eee av know it is * tu (Cremawell?; How: many and broke this one 7 Ste ee thar URUWiiniiNl leven hthae ' Epic Solid for Five Pounds. ‘ : . | Powell; he wna rigorous Presbyterian: e 2 strew the brooks tn Vallombrosa" know she of frivolous Cavelier biood, No won"Milton was fairly well-to-do, bis pater- | that tbis Is Milton's simile to picture the der their marriage proved jucompatible val ipberitance belug angumented by | mustering of Satan's legions? Scores After having left b for two years, | the inceme of a boy's schoo € con- |} other popular phe i "to temper { Mary Milton returned to her husband, | dneted befor taking the Latin Secreustice with ." are thus | and he forgave ber with a "noble leontue | taryship. uncon. Much ado has been made over sclously taken ees the rent poet whose | clemene ey." Their three daughters, after | the fact that be sold "Paradise Lost tercentenary Is vow at ha | ALnent THE SAM ORS * RETREAT OF TTIE Oe SAIL QOS WIFO IAVES BECOME? DIA BLED WILE Oe. TITLE, AMFEIC "ALY FLAG fF eee CRN nee do to eisai the of the famous agreem "John Milton, gent, of the one parte, snd Samuel Symona, printer, of the other parte," especially as Symons paid an additional £5 later ut It fs not in pounds and pence that a poet's genius mus lberality Dryden shouid ‘tag bis verses,' |g, blond tn compliment to Mrs we gua august pe:eplesropent vial transform opera, into a une be bis would tri- | Gent the third, eat een Wonca OneSee day as eee pliortiy ae eae the sonnet to men,'' and that isn ba , Fe of the the poet Q warped understanding of the deepest | © d ieee Milton haman relntionehips Now, blind and | vies nis Na and began be remembered that editions in that day Were small, the poct out of favor with the Merry Monarch's court, and money had @ much larger value than it base now-in fact, ite purchasing power was about elght times as great. Thus computed, Milton received nobout $200 down for and modern pnb- E xeellent and plous character," says Profesor Masso "some education, a placid and kindly temper, and prudent housekeeping ways."' Milton's sig: nature to the application for the m riage ‘s almost as misernble a serawl as that on Shakespeare's will, and shows how blindness and gout had afilict corn, and slain their strangest with simPle weapons near at hand. He too had takea a wife from among the worshipers of Dagon; he had made festival with her people over the nuptials which brought him a loss as tragic as Samson''s-the loss of human» tenderness, o lowered Ideal, and famous He twits eee Irth 50, ‘and it ‘took him "Ave -xenrsj| The ster Puritan bard of Iater | Salmasius for being under his wife's | directed to this end. From his twe to complete the poem. He was 57 when kee no wild outh to. repent of. | thumb, burls charges of {mmorality | year on be rarely left bis books oe e commenced "Paradise Regained," and 7 » o Cambridge, " ut 17,bis | &gainst his waldservants, and accuses be left college, Lim | midnight Ee within a year o 2 Soon after when i It was ae finished. dy,' | Of neglecting bis illegitimate children. Not | during the Ove placid years be spent at he marvelous lines of "Samson school-fellows Se eae Ago Foleo re conteut with ilt makes an ain Horton, Charles Diodati, his friend «at | {stes'' were written ot about e age of te attempt to . prove that the book " school, wrote to nsk what he was th Ink 60-bii Samson's death foresha dowiu: z bile still at 1brist's College. the most | seller who published Salmastus' work of. "Why, ai od belp me, Bs legea im| bis eeeit ats Sere ate: Sine was a fraudulent bankru imposter, cheat | mortality!"" was on'sn reply. ** oO e ° mbr! eS sae ene whee. be. coe beens aunt: , ee . eae s for G stilton, insttidtes quite derful ode "On th =o Slaparete Moroing of Chrixt's purSuch were the aueuicieg age. poten arAfter the Horton perlod, daring which | alle Nativity." me ais Write oet Le gument in that age. Mil as going | he wrote "Lycidas "Comus,"" MIlHebrew prophet "He aa had frosty," a3 though been a written Iu a cold colblind at the _tiive he ce pared this ton made a journey to Italy here, oo lege dormitory, and Its opening bas mans | pamphlet, champion favered of the Lord, and had and Salmasius exulted that a his way homeward, be met Galileo, still f the fantastic Images which Donne aud matched bis plane Strepgth ugatpst the Was due to the strain upov his eyes uuder conflvement by the Inquisition. Wil- | enemies of bis eople. He had sent the other poets of the uge were go fond of, | tailed by the controversy; while Milton, Iam Vaugho Moody bas suggested tbat | firebrands of es Lt yaimphiets among g their Dp Ee y Iinded. ordination "Hynin on tbe 21; "L'Allegro" He for £5, with the promise of another £5 when the second edition should appear. But St ts doubtful whether anyone with 4n eple poem cbeat bim In his marketings, So the happy domestic scene depleted by Munkacsy, the pninter of ‘Christ Before Pi- | late,' {s quite mytbical. Milton's second wife had dled within year or two, but he married again, at the age of 55, forced to it by the ltosub- StUMton's Torte enneinntnne eee Latin doubt | Pear ar PLlaniedaot aa the mother's death, did their best in turo to make thelr blind father's life miserable. Milton had not allowed them to learn any language-*‘oue tongue," he sald, ‘was enough for a woman''-bot he expected them to read to him from five or six. This they found dull and trksome, and rebelled. His tInststent anthority, matched against their obstinacy, engendered mutual hatred. One of them. just .before her fatber's third marriage, wheo she was told of It, sald: "It {s no news to hear of his wedding; but if I could hear of his dentbh, that were something." They frequently deserted him; | they stole his books and sold them: they even arranged with bis mald servant to the word "frosty" may be applied to the enrilest of Milton's poems, torrid Is not too strong for some of his |uter Prose. In 1649 King Charles was execu: ed, Milton's ringing defense of Cromwell's act caused the eyes of all England to turn toward him, He was appointed as Latin Secretary of the Commonwealth. One of bis first duties was to write a re ply to the "Eikon Basillke,"" or "Image of the King," 2 book that was belong widely circulated by abe Royalists and supposed to bo the work of the martyred tyrant bimself Milton's answer was the "Tkonoklastes," or ‘Image-Breaker,' a Among the | work unworthy of his genius. of which he accuses the dend || crimes Charles was a love for Shakespeare aud otber poets This hardly rings sincere Fr gracious, coming from the poet who bad bimself addressed Shakespeare In an immortal sonnet as "Dear Son of Memory, rofree belr of Fame,"' and proclaimed tha Milton sank to further depths controversy with Salmasius. That "a Littl tectne little Fierce -Grles Litltoms [ouse arid Tree If old the authenticat ed ie rare erlyJha se There yur - but, ou the whole, it is probably us re markable a poem us was ever written by @ youth of 21. There are ouly three tnstances of equal or more precocious genlua -Chatterton, who wrote "Elpoure ond Juga" at the age of 12; Shelley, who wrote "Queen Mab‘ when be was 21, and Bryant, whose "Tbanatopsis' was written in his elghteenth year. The Cotta O72z- Calle ar ‘| ALaLba2zuDictaiznd Paradise Lost toLis Lenghier Paintin Ly (aKa EY THOT AS WILSON oO CLUIPTCE aan unique iuostitution Sailors' Snug jn this countey-the ve average man less chance rr ONIN | tales gathered aoe Neat co oe ve a ar whet ' practical) ze pe ; followed eae = . i hl a the do Alexander of state o e oe or plained that be oeso New New New York, York, ay t me Chancellor the the "tt vote »y Sue the ree ¢ mayor res het ee y ; following | bullding were secured, Vetter rar : SEE eae Hamilton,first t di 8 Teed he desired sec Sete : mistee and to establish with 3 meee, | Church s at ite SARS er i vd Mtadine eat) rato of the Captain The estate that th thed comprised about quea land and D city of York k acy city, clit aa at. F Sm - bh ay eae hee admitted. power, Is reading the news of @ story from a book Looking around among the | Ing !1! and a thelr own: ' PONE: the day groups or of veteraus on the lawns or lyJn tbe broken hospital or will see oue ' rooms, face a tale of a Ifelong the sea; a confilct of two with the mighty deep; ao time the | every nuoiber of | with now there | tons ROC 2 > DOF APILE OS eee a rs Seca z z POP re 7 { atmosphere of the sea. The men who are | help last «pending days there e are thelr Im- | last day mensely proud of thelr home On any | ¥ . » * clear day obe may see gatbered ov the spacious Jawns little groups of old men | Means SRY, MS: RUBY Dee 8 ee ae) OF Sh aee Or} checkers, gossiping or gathered praune who, behind spectacles of extra one,4, * of a aultable | white-hafred nd be once rm followlig ee pee ee zie ae hhullaket cine the et ) oh inereased untl! Digs, sees Nite New | ee The erection begun a Randall be20 nereth se andof now roughly bounded by Four Fifth avenues in New streets as : > LOE ==> the Sart: . ras | Society o e / : ; flaptbrophy was OT ere war have | the first eects : | Society Soclety of vicethe eensre: city: of ; a.} , es for those‘ who erties who fol- | rector of mpp te: Ana a of the F rat Y¥York othing :ministe Newow an athe ce calle be valle fe't Upon : ‘dal and whep that bis iedaya were almost speovot hebe called friend to bim for De . time ; positions poeon f iWvelibood Captaln | andr suffering wae Are than and 100 priva years | erect lived PO ce ~ -- - -- - a Fur 1 ulated that the trustees shovld hold the | QF: benefit hig of earthy. disabled geodsailors& | property 4forever, using the revenue from | i dbenbant "ware | ft to establish and walptalo tbe Har- | o e 2 ericg erent . es ¥ "lw s drawn June 1, 1801, and | bor. While probibiting the sele of the | sae a R d Il bequeathed " practic ally estate, there wus nothing to probibit the | "Spa iat at fo . the establishing and purchasing of more property Bis eae e aa a eee ene inven. tle Following the death of Captain Randall | maintenance ¢ wea cas , 7 ° Q wo he was Htlgation and it was not6 until 1 ctepit Malloca Bate mathe rhe rae a 1851 that the site for the Harbor | as the Ba her yrovided that the trust | was selected and 200 acres on Staten | ment fort at itt ed to those who might | Isiand on the banks of the Kiti von Kull -___-- :WAR: ue before thelast mast badof || from should lv the days o been sent to Gnd me was on its way and whep the crew took me off I was talking jn i a jabber that newas .no languageSe iinarnn Practically every man in tb ac | can tell a similar story and were all the | =, or other- k ¥wise, eo they can uo longer make a ing on the The tustitution is unique not only be eause of this feature, but l beca MBP SILOIs‘ | immensely wealthy and yet !t has never recelved a penoy from nnyoue save its founder, who left It well provi for when he established It. Robert BR. Randall was n master marin ‘hed ro Joat | ad seen something of life at on cach of the seven seas and he realized | the average skipper bad but little , ebanco of "accumulating anything while | the sven * s a aie ee ie. i | Harbor. si use of salled AN foreat uot ey thin nd fag a at ee meno who have é 2 " five years under i the American who a Aisabled, through age = SOW ed $4 ee ~ Stone, fronted by, an' expepsive.-stretch of lawn and gravel walk, the whole fenced io by o tall tron railing Ree cark s the bout » quarter of a mil e fi long water front, which comprise tbe he SuCLLFs. ALLJ & LITTLE way aluny the west sbore of Staten Island, juet beyond the New Brighton Rallroad, stands & row of buildings of marble and white = long ZIP? x We22 LEEDS LP? DILIB (Ta , © SHLDS L277 L216 COPPA LOP festRae WY ame {tu op conflict generaSor Zr cee Mh Z, LIT 7p es beat assec AWA paar condaees "tk New "1 Inst ; _~ : he ‘s one of the most Interest- | stance. eae ae eaevisit for everywhere Is the ' Templar , While from { in d Rio there replete with blete ever Imagined Yat hacnloes these men would ndven} by the who bee eal a1 pages BE = = Tan es r > : upon often every meeting sen e seats okt : \thebsht When rane to face, yet she | face vet € es caping b Is clutches Armstrong stuck to the ship Fine a herad syon ail numrcers of. the' globe || broke up he = got clear of rbans theEn wreckageec iaein | gathe dr to pass thelr ren ining days upon o small skiff with neither rudder or oars land amld all of the comforts denied them : comin a ee ; Fate guided the little eraft to an Island, In thelr early days | Lhe Island was indeed a welcome bit of 8 a constant 1eminder of Alexande | terra tirina ror Jt meant safety and life Hamilitor whose ability in drawing up | -but at an awful price Ceptain Randall's will made the Harb: | : ; " ~overe' pn? he sod the1 siege Island . from of lit one end vossible ag it withste £ aretad r Se es ee na er ee to wae ere : "tald ie Captalo, "and ation an excellent picture of the ease 2 oyage back from Rilo yellow | found ft about three by five miles, but | statesman adorns the walls of the Har on the FOyeee ag ih x9 it . his wife |: there wae not=a sign of babitatlon and | por | fever broke ae one ac half lee bis the awful truth dawned upon me, I was Randall, unfortunately, lived before the | and eh Pen ana ha 8 8 Tane 4 @ patch of land with nothing save | era of photography and there | succumbed, has neve bu 18. brnve skipper, eo aaidec 9 Pacts ( | 0 BS a Ts : ‘ 1 n iikeness en ite of bim. Despit } by bis other dnughter and COUNS of | the eloibes in Peete ee nee Bee peep ae 10 yeara ago, there vas men worked the ship unti) he was ee } ee as ie Bee ws . me apon fhe roads a ane stata ne ee the sae an aio nen eee yse | a 3 AnEt reer bene anon cr ‘were as | of the llant seaman, mad rom ate of the vessel an a8 oseie on atbd: : aig ; pan ae ri ‘ 18 a de scription | left to rhe daughter of blm as cou Id bee a ee oe tis Seer eng eae P of the€. bark | sand little islands {n the South Pacltlc. | knees praying for deliverance. De. man See : | a : command o San Francisco to o ft autbe u rs. - ith denth In many shapes, o |; Cee 7 welrd In which tho Ife of the sailor ber part, alternately nursing the wen anc bung b by merely1 a thread : : To talk of death and denger to these | steering the ship till a passing vessel gave " Old Sougs"™ ‘ i ts as ta Iking g of of no vothing g for | help.1 escapes set down more iore story r til versatile - ---So eS = ni és a | : Parsi otber South American ports with silver, his ¢ vessel rR was attacked by ee Mncvelthent in the WItl cea harbor o er ; a - P airs oy eK 2 § » . ) Vv ere hand 7 aE en B33 be oiniiaenient lovked o rs a nes a went to eldent Sea eronte, fc rhe ahoulder a es a tee eet oe. ene Parken arouser em stiue 1e 2 cmiis ea ie . 8 B wos 8 s : ir Saiecpuiien Si er aoe eerie iacd six mo ys pale , City ae TEC ireiod. ty! poaees there is scarcely cai ee . a man {in the harbor While Ip command of the bark Osceola, | and dead fish cast up by the : ao ne ~ . e . : y an Se euiieang: buildings to the he art of | who bas not been shipmate with the | trading between San J Francisco and c hia, ae bite he ar ae ae irim Spectre on many an cruise, There | the vessel was cavght io simoon ant tcopo'ls ap each the metcop to the estate acros : an | Grim , ‘ SpectreGeorge iaorae N.oN ; A tr 08:5 ieive rock near one of the thou- | sel whilepeerlog 1 Income of about a milion aaare l the close : was Capt. > so of day saw r me on rmstroog my for driven on a annual inc aot York aud e © 28a volume olume ture than any most t and ' The crew took to the boats but Captain In the meantime aa vessel vessel whic which had ' seul. a eit ; ork rons and eels ant of beroic size mounted pedestal the statue to the Je masterae mariue: : : ) Sealine updk upon the Hat bor enp Me) soonmeW ty carat Goel one nani‘ aN } i from rom =fthe attitude t ope might g imagine he across the water to ece the gazing ships sips as as they : come 9 aand & go. |