a'j a a JOAQUIN MILLER, SHRINE BUILDER preme la-w-glvrr of the early Hebrews, hence the solid pyramid, the largest of these simple piles, was dedicated to him of whom1 it was said: "No man shall know his place of eepulcher." HIS rt'XEnALJPYKE. " Then he built a solid block for his funeral pyre, around which he intended his friends some time to gather and with fagots made from his own balmy pines and cypress to burn his out-worn b6dy to smoke and ashes and allow it to mingle with the Joyous elements. It was 'no small matter to make the steep hills of Joaquin's "Olympus" of fairly easy access to the poet and his assistants, for many roads, paths and trails had to be. carved from the hillsides and graded and built up- with rock to resist winter rains. Even in this the poet waa thorough; and in naming the highways and byways the spirit of poesy waa ever at hand. That broad pathway running In front of the Abbey was the Trail of Roses; Joaquin grew a multitude of rose vines along it to make It true to. its name, me main highway leading up the first hill slope to the Pyre and to the little, cypress-shaded cemetery where his' beloved rested In their last rest .liJJl-ll1 "'""Jm ,.r" I iZ , ' ' j" J ;,!' "'' nyrar oi Awraran, u (Continued from PrereiW Paired epsssed into the hsnds of another Dr.- Jordan, Colonel John P. ,ontinued from preceding rgej.T the .mUfr 1UerHry ,,,, A. j. . Irish, Wells Drury. Herbert Bash- Wsterhouse. who drew much In- "ro, j.awin Aiaricnam. Herman spiration from this environment: Whltaker. George Wharton James here .too' came Lowell Otis Reese, whose stories have brightened the pages of the (Saturday Evening post. JtANlTA MILLER'S COTTAGE. At the present moment the Madge Morris Cottage is doing worthy service as a woodsy outing-place for the Oakland Young Women' Christian Association. The last of the lodges built by the poet waa named by him "Juanita Collage.'' Jtere, today, Juan It a, talented, with a personality poetic in -every phase, practices the twin arts of verse and song, and l!s the itrt-suvenrs shaped by her deft hands. . With powers of high vocalization suggesting those of Madame Yaw, of Charles Ketlnn-. she sings her own "Linnet Song," in a way to make It worm .wmie foi-anyone to visit Uie Hights for that alone. Joaquin's mind from the time he awoke in the morning at dawn, and began to write, waa busy. His work-hours were of constant thought, not upon light themes, not always on the beautiful, the love of which was to him a passion; but upon deep ana sublime problems. He was . . i ..... , ... , . . . , -,i . eer ne anhviiiOH nmh . rini.in Tu'r"'" woru or iwo vi imerprc ..ouo num in constructing in AWft an in h hiui Misslsslnnl iettles ih h.HMin. of Asd as to the biggest elc-nie a cansl across the isthmus. (He company of students r'ho iii-favored, when th canal ... a r.r. i cmpuny or students, Ho said. project the Nicarague route). Long - ma a en a hitrae rsme riding by. before efforts were made to conserve daid I. "Old man. jour horse nlll tl river floods from the Bierrss. He J1 . t, , . f Whoever-went -the Last Tralh uc- I llr totd rm-1rr if 84 thst he Relieved Make the most of your horse,"- cording to the custom, after he had by damming up a multitude of he sdded enigmatical! v. ! n'"iS'Ml tnroUKh the Bishop's--Cate, sierra canyons and holding back Joaquin Miller builded In a simple, "want alona." Hence parties to the Pllouc)l ot ,he watPr (0 fivc ,he W8y. but he builded well; and !,3 pyre walked over the way in single congested valley rivers time to touched all he builded with the glow carry off the surplus the Sac- ot delicious memories. "It Is up to" ramento river overflow probiems the c.v of Oakland now that the could be solved. He realixed that "Ignla make one of her parks to the construction of these dam Proserv for all time these meni-wiHilil be a tremendous work. rlM; n,t t0 be at work al once bc- lriA-vti oi.' Tin.' ti'i j fore these memories are forgotten. "rr.. VUOiES RESTORATION. The desert, the great mountain.' I spent a couple of hours a few "the multitudinous sea" alike da VH Sinn rpivirwiinir Iho miot'n trnilu ulnnasif K tiKnn r f A fr((a 11 M rift r IhA a uspice.Tf the" VeVhodist Church, nreacher in Kan Fran- , " YnThV dw o7'4 , , 151,f V!i?i'TiMi.-VT and many another went again, and again to the poet's Forest to breathe Its tranquility and to get a touch of the poet's warm-hesrted soul. OBLIGES' REPORTERS. Miller wus always friendly to the newspaper man who came for a story: and the reporter always got his story, and a good one, though Miller's eyes many times were full of sly twinkles In his answers: "Yes sir," he said one day to & young man from Han Francisco, "I am dieting on hominy and honey, and I find it is good for me." The poet had been ill and it was news that he was recovering and odd news that he was on this queer diet. The teuth was an interested friend had just sent in a pint of honey and some hominy and Miller was. Just as the scribe entered, tasting of his gift. 1 "Diet of honey and honfiny," though, made a good head-line for ine lortncoming story. Being asked by another news .purveyor as to his philosophy of life, the poet replied: "On feet b, and one fnot Sotro. Aa that's tke may lo Buxton Tevrn," e- fil joanuj ,t firBt aimed to build j not one hlnKt HTge dwelling on the Hights but rather a serins of lodges. ii.... h. oraeteri a Hinarle small couag for his mother, Margaret 'witt Miller, when she came to re-ple Hide at the Hights. This he covered ' m ,il h .imnini, rn.uU It la nAV f X ' - cupied by Mrs. Joaquin Miller, wno cnarmeo mm. tie oeiievea himself and recalling associations. Tho Ab-"That's ja the guardian of the hundreds of a master at detailing the softness bey and Chapel as well as the Wil- pictures and literary relics left by and the sublimity of the sea and low Cottage In front of which Joa- the poet. Another lodge higher up spoke of his "Bong of Crestion" as qUln planted the first tree on his and baek of Grandma Miller's cot- an illustration. I once stood by him property are falling to ruin. These I tugs was occupied for years by, at the Hights,-and he improvised houses should at once be restored Takeshi Kanno ana nis American jor nie a coupiei ot verse: to the condition the poet kept them wife, Gertrude Boyle Kanno. This . . ' . - in. The willow before the . Willow house was Gertrude Boyle's studio ,,7'" " rrfi.lVlV -' Cottsae where Mrs. Grace Fountain of sculpture, in which she did not-j"' eesni isiaaea. once h(Uj h,r tll(lio )8 d),a(j ,t able work In shaping the busts of Riin , FrHnf.i.,B r,,v frhm the should be replanted, for this willow p nmou caiuornians, josepn le HightM was a source of perpetual was the flrst tree planted on the nnntt. John Muir. John hwett. Alar-' ...... ...,i...i.. 1i....i.j ...i.u . t. . inhia . Th. ,ini,nir. ..... ..... m a "-l" Jailulli nMiiru whm (it a, " garet Miller. Mrs. Mills, founder of hem-v iri nt a mnminv with m rirv and E live lenanta inn. A Mills' College, and perhaps the most pen, late In the afternoon he would water supply should be found Ht noted of all the bust of Joaquin for H(t ()n tn- tront porrh of the Wil- once and the lake restored. The J 1 Kanno was dreaming a PPlr'r?" ?r,n ! . J.UI c ky. as the nigh ! Jguchl, a orea.ni later ruaeiy snat- j fur lnto the nteht tmmolimes he sat hungry Junk dealer. It should be itere '... ,,,vni, Vii ii t in silence watching tho multitude of replaced. The rose. arbor under ;i;,pV h ito..tt if ..I -' I y J'hw"-.J. .h. ','o displays which the poet always entertained in "l ?. with n n ' 6n ,h5 ,b'"h'P't when the fleet his friends is down and the vines ' toVi ..bi ' " i" .1. Xlllt a" "i" ," . 9 harbor were his in- unirimmed :and unca.red for. t"'"f ,YrV' iH manof" elder "u-, "r..." . , .I1! IM" ? J4 . jaKCBiu ow Cottage and watch the ever- trails in many pluces need repair. fl!Jpam. or varying moods of hill, sea, city and The Iron chain which hung across H i i0n.C " th night 'aniiroached; and the entrance has fallen prey to some I mnt- lory rJc,m,,u:0 of . ei'"r just, below 'him'' beyond frultvale. Hights to their pri iCfilifornla. mining days. Joaquin be- Th(. siring or electrlo lights which bounteous-hearted, istliiB beauty! and nrt-tovlnc -n.l. ?" .VL ,.u n'uL Z. ' ' 1 ." ine nouinern t-acmc ocst ture-worsnipping uaaiana. in ner I"' bui-t foriat flpniha began in sha. f i W"y . m r1""".."! or..1"- ana nicn ow-wa Valley on "ihV" somi, "f&RM r I ,,, ot Mount Hhasta. where he Next In Importance to the ex-' "Tes, paslorTl am glad that my homed with the Indians in .their tensive forest-planting on the Hign.i n. Ola, is now safely provided for deep-hidden forest camps, in which WUH his plan to develop a liberal for the rest of his life." "Indeed! '.ho nr. nt v Reitmen ran. nn nntet , " .L-' r7:l 1 i. um.ti t a i. 1 ' X " -"r .. . .. . . . . . wmrr puppiy irym ine springs anu -nu-' inm. i i vit, i mwh i. and unouirusive iliac mis iiuim oeer or the curious bear sauntered through ihe camp trails so unafraid (that he seemed a friendly compan- ion or man. stream in the romantic redwood how. I only know that we heard canyon bordering the Hights on the from him yesterday from ChrlBtiania north, to lead this water over the telling us that some judge had just hill to "Tho Chapel" and the sur- given him a life term." trounoing ounaings. to successfully J This spirit of Arcadian quiet he carry out his plan it was necessary "After all," remarked Methuselah, ' desired to Instill Into the shady to make a cut through the ridge "my long life has been a good deal of glndes of his own hills; all of the jving between tha canyon and the a failure." "Merely because you wild things, the shy quail, the rab- houses. Many months of labor were kept out of politics?" "No. But it I . V. a ntir.hli.r1 th rrpnt.tinrnpH ......... , u , .. mi . , .1 .. -.. . . . v. .. . ...... ,. v.., . . . . , . "1" 01 oil HUB. 1 110 lUllliailU'l lllt"0 nr-T-iii lu hit. Htm IVO ijct-ii rti Bo-'owl all the folks of feather and to be solid roc solid enough to least entitled to an occasional inter-.1 I fur, he wanted to be at home in and t.ind without timbering, hut, alas! view as to whether or not I attribute 'about tne mgrns. em mosc ot an H heavy winter soaked the crum-. my longevity to abstinence from he wanted the human beings about ,ling walls of tho cut and the dis- s'rnmr Hrlnk nnr! tnbaeeo " him wno lovea inese inings ne astrous cave-in. before heavier and ' loved; and out of this desire grew Urge piping was put through, re- his School of Art and I'oetry. Ilia sulierl. This wus the poet's greatest i teachings were" never formal -al- disappointment in developing the ' ways suggestive snq inspirational. Hir,-ht iind he silently grieved when- inna tnunh tjtin at firm wh h a wnn In l. i. a i n say to the Writer who overcrowded went near the work. He expected his theme. To another who was t),is water source to be a Protection Uuilt' ot, '",t-" "T,,e w"rkl inst the forert fir. whlc-h might no use for two ' or evjn a , ahy tinie in dry summer dentrojr W0..- he whole romance of his sylvan HOW TO 1V.K1TI. IH . 'hills. He truly already had made his For another sincere and arlniiring waiks blossom with roses; but. with i5rou,l ""T, ,,r ,n"',,Bil. h? (h(. adequate water supply, the . . .km. a line op two In Khnti- . .. . . . .. . . iiiii'us were in im iransiurmea lino low tne poetic eueci was proauceu: . u vlatnn nt it, raiaiiui r,i.irr " .The fullnre of -bin u-heinn -Am4 San Kraarlaea Flay la white ' ne IH"u"f ol wal,fr. "-h"o will aall an a eland and aummrr ' 1,0,0 heavily on his declining years, HiH" - ' ""l A SIIUIXK Ol' CAXTKKBl'KY. ' Krotn nineteen hundred to the end He tne "rturin-r- of snag-of his days the poet s home was imW- Yone Noguchi's poetry' 'truly a "Shrine of Canterbury" to m.n while he , was a learner lit , which the most famous llterarv nil. the Hights. derived half its charm i grim as well as the lowly asDirant from Its delightful freedom. nook, the trail to the poet's door- Takeshi Kanno was under tne (step. Home, an Elbert Hubbard, Pau uaEB t'oay that TMKRK WAi ONif TOPIC OF N6VT fOT TIRaUl Oar-AAfO Cjoultj talk AttouTAwy THAT WAS ,, ti.-i. vi-ui. .i . . . ... . ,spen oi wun niiiiiuii iiiuiu man caipe uway wnn inspiration ror a of Miller and lost mmseir in oriental book, and Miller became a theme of inysticism. Anotner western poet, i one or tne " Ijittle JourneyH." others, . '5"..i' '",," iTT'T . "fi anicu iu v.i iiiui at-iiv.'i, incivvu i.iuin mHor, came lq uh who had Others Stoddard, tor because of old Stoddard Rome when mous. They r the Ov- suceessful Still others,! iviaonB ii.iii,-uu ur- ,nr iirnry ii vniK, inn liniln onan-li- longed, to the Miller school, received pearean actor, came to pay tribute , strong Impetus from Miller's in- to the American poet fluence. She writes at times with found his fame in London a maaculine strength, not found In as Charles Warren a woman since the days of Felicia rled on the Hights iiemnna, as seen In her "Colorado associations, for Miller and Desert;" though she moves into the chummeit together In sphere purely womanly in her I both Had become fan "Hocking theBaby." Her nrtistic . had been fellow writers fo lodge' on the Hights where she and erland Monthly, the first her esthetic husband lived for jeara. 1 California magaxine. -' ' " " v.
