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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27
ROme's Birthday.

An American pilgrim writes from Rome:
Coming down to breakfast the other
morning 1 found a most original and charm
ing invitation to the festival OF the Ludi
Secu!ares (Fete OF the Change OF the
Century,, which this year was united TO
the fete always given on RomZ's birthday
The invitation was an exact reproduction
of the description OF the Ludi Seculares Of
1877 A D., cut in marble, now preserved
in the Diocletan Museum, after having
been discovered al Cert in 1873. and is one
of the chief documents proving that Rome
was founded on April 2lSt. So curious 4
festival was not to be overlooked. espe-
cially as no one new living is likely 10
see another The weather magnificent,
and as I stood at the top of the steep
flight of steps which led into the Forum
RomanuHl the scene was SOul-stirring;
below lay the monuments of many ages,
their rough edges softened by clinging
green things. and clumps of imperial pur-
pie iris, which positively slowed in the
sun. AS the king and queen slowly de-
scended the steps they became, for me,
Augustus and the Empress Livia, the
ruined temples were rebuilt the groups
Of students were tosa-clad youths, and ne
who recited the Carmen Secuiare was Hor-
ace himself. Queen Margherita made the
circuit Of the Forum, and even here more
modern contrasts were not wanting for,
as Horace's invocation to Alme Sol rose
on the Roman air, the door Of monas-
terry which abuts on the Forum was
thrown open and a young Dominican monk
clad in white, stood motionless. looking
down on the fair Queen of Italy, Whlcn
forbidden glimpse may well have cost him
a severe penance. The queen was draoed
in fairy-like garments of gray, SO pale
as to look white in the distance, with mar
row black lace laid on in a pattern, and
cape to match. She looked the incarnation
of spring, while the king. martial in bear
ing. stood for winter with his long white
mustacha and gray hair"
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27

Asia" comes from the land of the almond
blossom 1t IS full of possibilities. and
has a deliciously Oriental touch about
il, for he proposes that hostesses should
adopt the Ko-kwai, OF perfume party of
japan. One doubts if western folk are
ina inative and simple enough TO carry
Il out completely. The surroundings,
in the first place, must be delicate, and
the hostess daintiIy clad. All the guests
must come fresh from their bath, in their
newest and prettest clothes: they must
have eaten no food and drunk no wines
or spirits of late; neither must the men
exhale the odor of even the mildest Gig
arctic, and each must lay before the
hostess a perfumed sachet, the particular
odor of which the others must determine,
a prize being given to the enc who
Euesses the most correctly.
1t is TO be feared the western man
would not be much in evidence at these
parties. 1t would have to be a hostess of
rare beauty or charm who could induce
all the men of her acquaintance to foreSo
smoking for practically whole day, and
live on crystaiZed violets and ice waters,
In order to have the privilege of laying
sachet at her feet and counting head
ache in an atmosphere of musk and lotus
and patcbouli. However. new ideas are
so scarce that the ko-Kwai is sure to
be tried. i remains to be seen what we
make of it in the West--Chicago News.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27

of the Rolfe family. In this hall hangs a
portrait by De Passe Of a handsome
young woman. with high cheekbones.
and complexion splendidly swarthy
Around this portrait are the words
Matoaka Rebecka fila potentis Prince
Powhatani Imp. Virginiae, and on a
space below the portrait are these words,
.Adatoaka. alias sRebecka. daughter OF
the mighty Prince Powha tani, Emperor
of Attanough komouck of Virginia.
Christian convert. and married to the
Worshipful Mr.. Thomas Rolf. Aged q.
1916. This portrait OF the far-famed
Princess Pocahontas xas painted but
few weeks before she died on board
ship about to sail for America She was
buried in the parish church OF Graves
end, a the mouth of the river Thames,
and to this day the curious can see
the following entry in the parish reg
lister: 1915. March d Rebecca Wrote.
wife of Thomas Wrolfe. gent, a Virginia
lady born, was buried here in the chaun-
cell" Unfortunately the original edifice
was burnt down a century ago, otherwise
Americans could ROW look upon the tomb
of the first American girl who took an
English misunderstanding Evening
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27
Wireless T:le.raplly.

Electricians used to the older methods
of biography, and business men inter-
ested in them. are somewhat reluctant to
acknowledge the possibilities of wireless
biography" just as gas engineers were
slow to believe lin electric lighting. 1t 10
human nature. Unable to deny that
Marconi has been successful in a meas
ure, some telegraph engineers are dis
posed to limit the wireless telegraph to
short distances of a few miles, and say
it will only be useful for a coast commu-
nication to liShtshps, etc. Professor r.
A. Fessenden, however, in the "Transla-
tons of the American Institute of Elec-
tricaI Engineers" shows that Marconi's
law for the range of signalling, namely,
that it is proportional to the product Of
the heights of the vertical wires used at
the sending and receiving stations, has a
rational basis and. therefore. with high
enough sending and receiving wires, as
we'll as powerful sparks. and slight inn
provements in the apparatus, the range
might he carried to thousand miles or
more.-London Globe.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27
How a German Princess is Brou sht Up

The Princess Victoria. the only daughter
of the Emperor and Empress of Germany,
is being brought up in a homely Dutch
fashion.
The Emperor said: 81 could wish no
better for the men of my nation than
that the girls of Germany should follow
the example o. Their Empress and devote
their lives as she does, to the cultivation
OF the three great k's-Kirche, Kinder
and kuche" And it may be readily UNI
derstood that a woman whose life is bound
by church, children and kitchen will
train her daughter in domestic virtues.
The little Princess knows nothing of
ponlp, luxury or self-indulgence. She
gets I'D at O'Clock in the morning. and
until / o'clock. the hour when the inn
perial family dimes. is busy with her tu-
tors. Her mind and body are carefully
wattted over by her mother. Her play
hours are as Systematically arranged as
her study hours. There were already SIX
sons when this little daughter was born
to the house of HoFlenzollern and the
coming OF a baby sister was happy
event. There is rowing on the lake with
her brothers, riding on her pet pony,
n.cniclSine in the woods of the park and
long botanizing expeditions with her moth
err as companion, through the beautiful
grounds that surround the palace at Pots
dam.
Princess Victoria has an intense love
for animals She has pets of many kinds
dogs. a big white cat. birds, fish. squir-
rels and rabbits, and it is her daily delight
to feed them with her own hands. she
Is a quiet, amiable. affectionate little
girl. with much Of her mothers sweetness
of nature-Harper's Bazaar.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27
The Bachelor in the Wood.

Beauty I trod. who trod in bridal woods
A midnight galaxy Of violets,
A milky way of flushed spring beauties,
starred
With pleiades of all golden addertongue-
How could that blossomed fire be else
than this,
The height of a woman's ankle in the
wood?
Passion I breathed, who found all air
harp
To passionate brown thrushes shaken
and thrilled,
The pauses in that magic ministrelsy
Filled with a musics echo of cardinals
How could that warbled fire be else than
this.
The height of woman's lips within the
wood?
But love, but love. how shall I find it
here,
O April, Aphrodite, hero alone?
Those send the bees TO find their sister
flowers,
These sing unto their mates; but love. my
love?
Is it where the hawk hangs on the moving
cloud,
The height of a woman's heart above
the wood?
Joseph Russell Taylor, in the Atlantic.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27
JAPANESE JOURNALISM.
It Has Been Found an Effective In
strument1of Reform.

However. there was one feature OF Jap
anese life under the feudal regime when
was favorable to the establishment and
growth of journalism, says 7. ]. Naka-s
wa, in the Forum. Under the rule OF the
territorial lords, freedom of speech was
by no means tYrannically suppressed. AS
a general rule, these mobiles were care
fully educat ted from early youth in the
doctrines of Confucius and Menclus.
They were surrounded also by advisers
elders Of the house as they was Called
selected from among the ablest and most
experienced of their yassals, whose duty
it was to advise their masters upon oil
matters of Importance. The system was
one calculated to impress upon the no.
bleman a realization of the responsible
tiles Of his position and due respect
for the opinion of others. The study of
the political doctrines incucated by Con-
fucius and Mencius did much to make
him liberal and tolerant; for although
China was in their day, as it is now,
an absolute monarchy the political phi
losophy of the sages named was not by
any means moulded1n the same cast. On
the contrary, their sayings are full of
genuinely democratic spirit. Mencius
goes so far as to declare that dynasty
could, and should, continue so long only
as its line of action was acceptable to the
will of heaven-that is, to the people. He
said that such wise Emperors as Iao and
lShun did not disdain the suggestions of
peasants.
Now it is a curious fact that while
in China the sayings of these ancient
philosophers have been studied merely as
models of literary style, the tendency in
Japan has been toward the practical ap-
pIication of their teachings. Small Won
der, therefore, that education based up
on such broad and liberal doctrines
should have caused japanese feudal lords
not only to concede to their elders and
counselors the right freely to express
their views, but to encourage the same
freedom among vassals generally. Thus
in the samurai were fostered frank
ness in the enuncia ton of his views and
a feeling of responsibility for the welfare
of his master and OF his fellows. In the
broader field Of national aaf1lrs
education, training and usages I'M
pressed upon the duty of re.
dressing the wrongs OF the people and
of erecting abuses of power, and when
Journalism was introduced he found IN
the vocation a natural and an effective
instrument of reform. This explains why
at the inception of journalism enterprise
| in japan. the letters were mostly OF the
samurai class, and why the professor
itself was regarded as a most honoraole
one.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27
Ihsen,s PLAYS in Paris.

But Ibsen is dramatist; so far as
mara dramaturgic skill goes, he IS one
Of the greatest OF all dramatists. Al
most every one of his social dramas
has been performed In Paris: and even
though some OF them have been acted but
two or three times, still they have been
seen on the stase-the only true proving
ground OF genuine dramatist's work
Few OF these plays really pleased the
Parisians,-and why should they! lb-
sen is not Gallo, but very Scandinavian.
ne is not at all gay. indeed he is austere-
But after they had seen certain mum
Der of these Scandinavian austerities.
they came away dissatisfied with the
ordinary Partisan play. However, mac
certahie their ethical code may seem
sometimes 10 us Angio-Saxons. the
French are mora.ists TO the marrow;
and what they seek on the stage is "a
picture of life-whieh is also Judgment.
they may not have recognized the pic
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27
na,zac. the Prince of Rcal:sts.

Balzac is the greatest French novelist.
One-third or one-!lalf of the best French
novels are his, and from him dates nearly
all that is excellent in the theory ana
practice Of his successors. Since his day
the men who have done most for the art
of fiction in France, the men who nave De
veloped it and kept it vital. have been his
disciples. He expressly formulated. ana
on many a page he Illustrated, an unim-
peachabe doctrine Of realism. Fidelity TO
the truth as derived by actual observation.
or capable of being tested by ooserVa-
tion-this. BaIzac taught, is an indi5pensa-
Bile quality in a novelist. He is the great
est French novelist, but wrote some of the
most inartistic books in all French iltera-
ture He was the father of the reailsts;
yet, for many of his works his sons are
tempted to disown him. Moreover, ne
conceived and carried aut, to an astonish-
ing extent. the idea of representing in tic-
ton the life of his time in France. SO that
no essential feature should De lacking; and
he did all this in such wise that the pic
ture. though complete in almost every
fea ture-complete beyond praise and be-
yond parallel in literature or any other
arts mere distortion of the truth
From "Balzac," by George Mclean Har-
per, in the May Scribner's.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27
~ Soclo1u MZartyr.

Rustling brown Of silk meath me 1oam -
old lace. ,,..,,.s
A half-languid smile upon each nseiess
"A dreaming of roses and roseleaf shades
a medley of modern and Greclah aiiaius.
i Such clatter and clink
One scarcely can think,
Till he spies shy nook where ne loneiS
can sink
For how can a bachelor DE at nis go
With such variant emotions al d i1oott
teas?
Fair Phyllis gold lashes demurely cast
down,
Her face in sweet doubt 'twixt a SINE
and a froWn-
A venturesome rosebud oertopping the
Now lies all a-quiver upon her Whlte
breast.
The curves of her neck
Mans vows often wreck
She has the whole world at her call ana
her beck.
So how can a bachelor be at his ease
With such varient emotions at AFTERNOON
teas?
Behind -sheltering pains. safe from COS
sips sharp gaze,
Is dCleu III MING one VI 49, =
plays
Sweet Bessie's brown eyes raised beseech-
ingly up.
Her lips just released from the kiss of her
cup,
And Fred, much fear,
From small sounds that near,
Is as bold as the rim OF her cup-and as
near
And how can a bachelor be at his ease
With SUCH sights and such sounds at our
afternoon teas?
shrewd matters watch Phyllis and Bessie
and Fred
Each smile and each look and each toss
of the head
And wonder and ponder and figure and
scheme.
While fortune and fashion 'gainst love
tip the beam,
For Bessie.s dark locks
And Phyllis smart frocks
Are but snares to entraD the society
fox.
Pray, how can bachelor be at his ease
With such artful devices at afternoon
teas?
Brown Magazine.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27
Jananesc ON Books About Japan.

Now the making of books on Japan and
things japanese is : fashionable business
in the West, and sense and fashion da
not seem to go together always. Tragedy
comes when one takes nonsense seriously;
the penalty of the lack OF huEnor IS
very sad thing. The -'AIikado' and-wasca
is worse-Pierre Lofts Madame Chrysan-
theme on dear what nave you done thas
you should be doomed TO take thess
things seriousIy2 Why. the 'Mikado! We
all know that 1t is a comic Operat you
tell me. All that does not however. pre-
vent you from basing, unconsciously rs
do1rbt much OF Your ideas of Japan upon
it.
There is a vast deal Of humor-that Is,
for the Japanese-to watch the West
sit down to the feast Qf enlightenment
served by three-mon Observation-Disclosures
authority on things Japanese. More en-
Pertaining still, when 1t pays goodiy
sum and receives in IT'S dusty humiliation,
a romance f"Madame Butterfly" 10,
examp!e) published between the disnitied
covers of flgh-priced monthly, and
takes 1t seriously.
/ an, japanese. and naturally. Know
nothing of Japan-that Is true And II Is
simply and outrageously absurd Tor me TO
sit in Judgment over the enlightened
iudees from abroad-and heaven forbid
raj shall ever be guilty OF such a
thing, At the same time may perhaps bs
allowed 10 be amused. may not? For
! what could you do but laugh II the most
excellent Mr. Frank r. Stockton were
cited as the authority on the construction
,, Of the s.t,le-ship or Mr. W. ID. Howeils
on the influence of sun-spots on the mag
net!c storms OF the earth?-Adaehi kinno-
suke in the May Critic.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27
The yeweilcd slap of France.

This Russian map presented 10 France
by the Czar} ought to hang not at the
Louvre, but in the New Jerusalem, as de-
scrbed in the Apocalypse The list or ule
gems marking the second and third-Eate
towns seems borrowed from that OF the
foundation stones given by the Seer or
Patnos There was no diamond in the
New Jerusalem; there IS 4 very large
oue-larger than 4 Mazarin d.amond-in
the map. It represents Paris. was not
this a sweet compliment to the brilliant
capita1-la Vile Lumiere2 Each depart
ment is figured by jasper of peculiar
hue, and the Department OF the Seine py
an inkish one that can no longer be found
in the market The big diamond IS not
anything like so precious as the pink jas
per surrounding il. Rich and rare gems
stand for all the towns of Importance. and
are set IN gold The whole thinS-a yard
square-has curious cIolssone appearance.
I hear that the Grand Duchess Helena,
sister-in-law OF Nicholas L, gave SINH
lar map to the CZarevfIch Nicholas. uncle
OF the present Gear. But it was OF Fin
land only. Sapphires represented the lakes
However, it was not 10 be compared IN
workmanship and size to the one presented
to NJ. Loubet, and contained only twenty
varieties OF stones. The map OF France,
between departments and towns. contains
nearly 200 varieties. all found in Siberia.
The exactress OF the map exceeds. per-
haps, any OF the German War Office. the
names are in inIaid gold and the rivers in
platinum. Every stone Is firmly secured
by its gold setting This singular toy Tor
Marianne is to hang in the Sale des Etats
at the Louvre. The agate representing Al
SAGE takes a greenish tinse. Green IS ale
color, you know, OF hope. All the outly-
ing frontier States and the seas that WASH
the coast OF France are in asates or diff
ferent shades.-Paris Correspondence Lon
don Truth,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27
Eclipse of Sun Comes from the Yves

Move eastward. hapy earth, and leave
Yon orange sunset waning slow;
From fringes of the faded eve.
o happy planet, eastward go.
The eastward motion of the earth it is
which gives an apparent westward
progress to the sun. When we are on
a moving train. going eastward, all the
trees and fixed objects seem to fly west
ward as we pass them. The moon moves
eastward with the earth. but the shadow
of the moving moon, cast on the moving
earth, traverses the earth's surface from
west to east and so any eclipse OF the
sun by the moon will be visible earlier
in the west than the east. We, north Of
ule equinoctial, must view-mentaAiy, at
least-celestial objects with our faces
southwark. Locating in this way the
sun, moon and earth. and remembering
the direction of the real motion Of the
two planets, we shall see that solar
eclipse must be first visible in or proceed
from the west and lunar one from the
east.-New Lippincott.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27
Musical Possibilities in Poe's Poems

Music runs throughout Poe's poetry IL
is the first thing that strikes the ear
Louis e. Van Norman, in a recent address
on Poe and His Poetics,' said: 1t is not
surprising that this is so, for ne believed
the musical element to be the very soul
of verse 1t is to De regretted that Amer
lean musicians have overlooked Poe IN
their lyric and operate compositions Tue
poems of Poe are a field of fresh. untrod-
den lyrica. beauty Euphony, forcble die
ton rhythmic flow, inteiiisibility, the lyric
and dramatic sprit-alI the qualities nee
essary for descriptive music are present in
their perfection. What grand, weird.
soul-stirring opera or oratorio could De
built up around THE Raven as q central
theme if there were only some American
Wagner to call forth the music" Leigh
Irvine. in a recent number OF The Corning
Age echoes the same idea when he speaks
of Poes .alliterative melodies. Says Nh
Irvine: Poe viewed poetry through The
eye OF art. He studied effects and attain
ed them He wrote with eiocution IN
view, as the actor studies his art be
wrote for the heart. He was an actor ii
the role of the poet, and had an intense
nature born TO realize the dramatic
Stanley Schell, in ''Werner's Magazine
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27

light hand from her left, and was, there
fore, esteemed too ignorant for her evil
Gence to he of any value" said an obser-
want Chicago man yesterday. "Now do
you know I don't believe one woman out
of six knows her right from her left
without stopping to consider the matter?"
II was standing in the foyer of a trea-
tire the other day a a matinee watching
the audience, mostly feminine. as it passed
in writes a correspondent to the Chi
cage Chronicle" "Well, each maid handed
her check 10 the usher and he called
out, First door to the right or Second
door to the left as the case might be.
With hardly an Exception those Girls
turned in the wrong direction: then they'd
pause to consider, cxclaim: We're gong
the wrong way and skurry back again.
This happened so often that I spoke
to the usher about it.
IS They always do it, he replied. iacon-
ically. L usually point SO they'll know
the way, but I've neglected to do that
to-day. They're all right if they stop to
think but they never do think!
81 myself know an intelligent young
woman VINO has to make a little motion
as if she were writing with both hands
before she can determine the right one
and she declares that all her acquaintance
are affected in like manner So perhaps,
this is a general feminine failing, and the
coIored witness was unjustly excluded
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27
n Remarkable Ring.
1t Contains Il Tiny Music Box and
Has Pathetic il History.

1t Contains Il Tiny Music Box and
Has Pathetic History.
The most charming little ring and IN
terestins little curio in the world is the
property of Mr. Temple Of London. This
gentleman is a nephew OF the ceieofateu
Sir Richard Temple, and the ring in CUES
ton is a hisnly-prized old family heirloom.
Its history is pathetic and ronantlc III
the extreme.
Inside of mis- tiny circiet of gold are the
works of a perfect little music box. You
touch spring and mold the ring quite
close to your ear. Then you hear the
sweetest, weirdest, tiniest little tune,
which seems like a voice from spirlt-lano:
This ring was once in the possession OF
one of Mr.. Temples ancestors, VINO E'eo
in France. He was a stanch foyallst, anu
in the days of the revolution he vaiantly
espoused the cause of the unfortunate
Louis and his lively, doomed queen, Marie
Antoinette. He was arrested and thrown
into iail. where he fingered for days and
weeks.
One of his few pleasures in the gloomy
solitude of his dreary dungeon was 10
listen to the voice or tune OF the niue
musical ring, which he always wore on
the third finger of his left hand. he had
inherited it from his grandfather, Wao
had 1t manufactured Ill de1e'd d. SASA'
cost
One day, sullen-faced' men, heavily arm
ed, came to his dark dungton and told MN
he must follow them. He knew that TINS
meant the guilotine. He stepped bravery
out to meet his fate. determined TO die
like an English gentleman and a brave
man And ne did.
A strange fancy took possession of him
lust before they led him to the BLOCK.
He touched the spring of his little ring
and lovingly held it to his ear 1t sang
its little tune merrily and bris1-ly.
Then the signal came. He laid his head
on the guillotine which few hours be-
fore had known the life blood OF a
queen.
In the course of time the little ring
found its way back to the Temple family
but it was silent. It's present owner took
it to a London jeweler, VINO found in tho
musical mechanism a clot of blood that
for wears had lain there and lmcedea
the working of the machinery.
This was removed, and the little r1n~
sings again the same little tune that be
rliled the many sad hours of its former
owner.-Chicago Times-H era G.