The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-04-17

towns tor. should have other things to engage
them besides thu wholcsaling or retail
ing of scandals. 1t is undignifed and unbc-
coming: and if malice be Mt the bottom, 1t Is
something worse. Why not have circulating
library for use in rainy weathcr,and let US all 60
and gather ferns and flowers during the warm
and pulsing spring days--communc with nature!
The men who have nothing to do but engage
in it should be put to work on the railroad.
Mr.. Beckford's lecture on "The Personality
of Shakespeare" report of which appeared III
the last issue of the Posr, suggests somelobser'
vations in regard to the versatile as we'll as
the profound genius of the poet, which
would like to extend over two pages OF the
Posi- but which shall contne to a column OF
Airy Tongues. Indeed the head line of this col
umn is taken from Shakespeare where he speaks
of GARY tongues that syllable mems names,
and women's too for that matter. This col
umn is, in fact, devoted to gossip-not to that
vulgar gossip which deals with indecent scan
dals that foul the mouth and pollute the heart
and which neither gentlemen nor ladies' should
repeat or hear but legitimate gossip about
people and their affairs that forms such an in
teresting feature of the modern newspaper
and, here and there, may point moral OF
adorn q tale.
Shakespeare is an entertaining study to per-
sons of all professions and pursults-to the
lawyer, the doctor, tie botanist, the philosopher
the statesman, the horse jockey, and even down
to the politician. Take the law. Lord Camp
bell, who wrote the olives Of the Chief Justi-
cess" says that "while noyeists and dramatsti
are constantly making mistakes as to the law
of marriage, of wills and inheritancc--tc
Shakspeare's law, lavishly as he propounds it,
there can neither be demurrer, nor bill of cx-
ccption, nor writ of error"
See his mere testing in the Comedy of Err
rors, in the dialogue between Antipholus OF
Syracuse, and his man Dromio, in Act II
scene ..
OTO ). 'lhcre no time FOR r man 10 FttOFtr Hl'
hair that grows bald by nature
Ant. S. May he not DO it by !dnc and r'rorcry?
Dro $. Yes, to pay fnC for pcrwi.; ani rccore'
the lost hair of another man.
The author of these lines was evidently
familiar with some of the most abstruse pro-
ccediugs in English jurisprudence. Then il
Act ", scene 2, Adriana asks Dromio "WherC
is thy master Dromio? Is he well?" DromiC
replies:
NO. he's in Tartar limbo, worse thnn hell,
| \ devil in everlasting garment hath him.
One whose hard heart is buttoncd up with steel;
4 iend, q fairy, ptiless and rough;
4 wolf: nay, worse. IL fellow all in buff;
| y backfriend shouldcr-clappcr, one that couil-
ternands
! The passages ANA alleys, creeks and narrow lands;
\ hound that runs counter, and yet draws dry foo
we'll;
One that before the judgement carries poor souls tt
hell"
AIR. "Why, man, what is the NATTER
Dro. 5. do not know the NATTER he's 'rcsted on
| the case.
.ldr What is he arrested: Tell me at whose suit
-.
But he's in - suit OF bun which rested him
that can tell
| .ldr This wonder at;
Thut hc unknown to Inc should be in debt
Tell me, was lie arrested on dond:
Dr0. S. Not OH bond, but on stronger thing
4 chain. Il chdin"
Hercis full detailed and graphic account
| Of ON orroot ~ Ep,rl,u6 on ,D1x,jr ,,).ocp 4
('bcforc Judgement in all action on tie case
for the price of 4 gold chain, by 4 Sheriff.
officer, or balif in his buff costume, and car
rying his prisoner to 4 sponging house.
In CHERRY Wives OF Windsor" Ford, under
the name Of Master Brook tries to induce
Falstatl TO assist him in his intrigue with Mrs
Ford, and declares from all the trouble ant
money he had bestowed upon her, he had lac
no beneficial return, there are the following
question and answer:
Fui "Of what quality your love then!
Fort. Like fair house built upon another man
ground; SO that iost my cdifrc By mistdEih9
IN, place rhet Iercctcd it,
Here is cvnced knowledge Of real property
One unfamiliar with law would suppose that il
a man, By mistake, builds a fine house on the
land of another, when he discovers his error
he will be permitted to remove all the material
of the structure, and particularly the marble
pillars and carved chimney pieces which
adorned it; but Shakespeare knew better. lie
knew that under the common law these things
being fixed to the freehold the absolute property
in them belonged to the owner of the soil
Afterwards, in the second scene Of the fourth
act, this dialogue occurs:
Ms. Pug.. Iii have the cl,igcl h.Ilo"c., and huue
DER the altar; it las done merioriou,
service.
Mrs For! What think You: May we, with th'
tcurrttnt of womunhcod, and the WitncS'
Of 4 good conscience, pursue Kim viii
further revenge!
Mrs Poge. The spirit OF wancnness is, sure, sacreJ
and out Of him; IL the dell have lin no
in jec Simp pic, 'cM dHe and recovery, he
will never, think, In the way OF waste
attempt again
Here this Merry Wife of Windsor knew that
the highest estate the devil could hold i'll any Of
his Victims was zee StH'Ptc strengthened Dy
dmc a1,d recotery. There are numerous
herpassages illustrating the same knowledge,
The merchant of Venice is full Of them.
But take him on horses. He knew more
about the good points Of a horse as well as OF
his bad points, than any horse jockey i'll Ken
lucky. In Venus and Adons he says: I
80 did this horse excel n common one