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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-05

The Tin, Sheet-lron and cornice Work
ers Union viii hereafter meet semi
monthly instead Of monthly.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-05

Previously donated for relief OF poor
si.3.11: special agents $50; City Mission,
$50: cases of Immediate need, $50; total,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-05

Miss Essie Burnett left Saturday after
noon to spend the remainder of the season
with friends and relatives. in Phllade.-
mia, Pa, Wilmington, Del. and Baiti-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-05

Mrs. a. p. Gilbert. of Ashland, Va, and
Miss Hattie Gray, OF Cumberland, are VS.
ting friends In New York.
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air. and Mrs Edmund Strudwick have
returned to their home on the Hermitage
Road, after a visit to North Caroiiha'
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Mrs. John Hughes and Miss Hughes are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. e. StrudWlck' on
the Hermitage Road.
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Miss Lenore l.. Anderson is the guest
of Mrs George II. Haynes, No. IL South
Third Street
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Miss Margaret Stokes. who has been
visiting her grandmother. Mrs. IA Y.
Stokes, Will leave Wednesday for her
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The The total contributions received was
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17
Afterward.

Ii were to find you at last,
Youth all past,
And YOGI soul spreading wings for its fight;
II were to call in the night.
You would hear me and stay?
You would wait?
And swift wind would bear us away
To Gods gate?
And 1 would ask God boon
Youth again,
And new life, perhaps in some moon,
And something more perfect than wedlock
To Join our two souls. for I know
That in heaven each soul has its mate,
And know ii is quite satisfied,
And not fan
For more love- we mortals who walt,
And who yearn till our eyes are on fire
With the tears of our quenchless desire.
But is that not the plan Of Gods giving?
Or is our desert far too small2
know not; but this we call living
Is starving love-crImbs that fall
From the table where sit the great seraphs
And feast. Is there plenty for all?
But the swine-souls who trample and waste
(Filth-encased),
VIII God scoTrge them away?
While We who are fed from his hand
Shall be glad, and at last understand?
-Danske cambridge in the Cosmopolitan.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17

Ralph Marlowe," a novel by James Ball
Naylor, is in some respects the very worst
book of the year. In other respects it is
original enough to be noteworthy, and
quaint and humorous enough to be anus
ing. The author announces that it is no
purpose novel, but the statement was
hardly necessary TO anyone who has read
it even half through. The fact is that
both author and publishers apparently
think they have produced another David
Harum," but they have not quite done It.
In the first place, the proofreading is
fun of errors, and those of somewhat
striking kind. Moreover, there are glaring
faults in grammar and rhetoric, and the
hero Is an unmitigated, unbearable cad Of
the Young Mems Christian Association
variety-a young man who lectures his
employer. reforms his companions and
generally. considers himself the Admirable
Crichton for the whole town. Meanwhile
he wraps about himself veil Of impene-
trable gloom and more or, less Byronic
melancholy, and is duly admired by every
body for that and other qualities. He
talks stilted sch6oboy rhetoric and acts
cheap Sunday school-book heroics.
The interest lies in the minor characters
especially one Jep Tucker. who does all
the storytelling ana is pfpNeEb-InOnSer -in-
chief to the neighborhood Many Of the
things he says are really funny, and the
fun is of a unique and unconventional
variety. His Smiles are original, and his
metaphors curious Here is specimen
Of his style of conversation:
"Ther' used to be an OF Teller in these
parts, by the name Of Josh Springer.
who could spin some o the whom
pin'est huntin yarns you ever heard
tell of. One of EN- was .hout
shoOtin' a squirt off II IL tall she'll
bark hick ry. Said he freed it, and
tried fer quite spell to git a shot
at IL, but 1t kept movin' round and
round the tree, as fast as he did Said
at last he got mad and hit the tree a
elite with his gun, bendin' the bari
till 1t looked like half a wagon tire
THE squirt was on the opposite
eide o. the tree from him, of course.
so he ups and pokes the muzzle of
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The Iceberg.

The Aurora decks my brow with fame;
Ros--red my crystals burn;
Out of the eternal deep | came,
And to the deep return.
Borne OF the herald winds go;
The trumpets of the desert blow;
And round my breast 1 the mantle Of the
sno%.
Yet by the Polar moonbeams kissed,
\ stateier robe is mine;
The silken raiment of the mist
Enshrouds me for sign
am the eldest child of death,
As that pale vesture witnesseth;
The mresting wave grows still before my frozen
breath.
And landsmen, far on Norway's coast,
Have seen my pinions white.
And wondering asked what strange sea ghost,
Went by them in tie night:
As down those racing tides | fled.
4 spectre from world more dread,
rarkeuing 4 thousand stars with my tremendous
head.
Sometimes to my fororn domain
There comes n lonely sail;
The rangers Of the untraveled main
Who follow the great whale.
When the grey fog lies dank and cold.
Along a sumbering ocean rolled,
Into its shades they steer with Joeund hearts
and bold
Till breaking through the fatal veil,
Athwart their bows | loom;
And the wind leaves their dropping sail
Before the impending DOOM
Even as those parted mistS reveal
The foe their wavering folds conceal,
Nv ponderous bulk descends upon their shattered
keel;
With crash oi many rending beam
And shrek Of drowning men.
As the green pillows sitting stream
Floods the orecastle's pen;
While l. Of ignorant soul and blinG,
Mute slave OF a divner mind,
Leave my vet gaspjng prey. nor cast one glance
behind.
Still southwark. eyer Scath~1rd. preset
BY hurrying currents driven;
Till on sCrener seas | rest.
Beneath bluer heaven.
And Is some guilty spirit dies
Before our Lords accusing eyes.
Into the wave / sink, watched by those cloud
less skies.
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Henry ".

"Tbe Richard Mansfield Acting Version
of king Henry W. is the title of a slim,
brown covered volume, with an artlstlc
reproduction of King Henry's coat of
.rms on the outside There is a very de-
cided difference between this and some
of her acting versions of Shakespeare
plays which have been put before the
public The difference is that this play is
edited, printed. and annotated in a way
which will make it really valuable to the
public.
1t contains but two illustrations, one a
portrait of Mansfield In the character OF
Henry V, and the other portrait of the
King himself. There is an introduction
by MIR. Mansfield. and there are numer-
Gus notes. sensibly placed at the bottom
of the page, instead of all together at
the end. The latter arrangement, fol-
lowed in too many such books, reminds
one of that old work of Lord Timothy
Dexter, in which all the punctuation
points We're omitted. and four pages of
all kinds of them placed at the end, with
directions to the reader TO pepper and salt
to suit himself
The introduction is a new proof of the
essentially literary character of Mans
fields work. He is never simply an actor.
He Is author, litterateur, artist, musician,
and much of as many other things as
may be necessary to his aim: but he is
above all the book lover and the student.
A part of the introduction runs as fol-
lows, and clearly shows this:
You will note that Henry is COM
mencing to exhibit the many sides of
very versatile character. In the first
act he was not at all what he was in
the second, and now in the third we
have him again in two different roles:
first, as the brilliant captain and mag
netic leader of men, and then a
very willy and eloquent pleader. for he
infuses such terror into the minds of
the citizens that they are moved 10
surrender the town then and there in
stead OF protracting the siege-a course
which might have been fatal to Henry.
Indeed, throughout this work we find
Henry constantly swaying men by his
reasoning and his powers of elOquence.
He very rarely throws aside the man.
tie of the King and the manner of the
good fellow and comradf until the
opportunity occurs in the fourth act.
Here at last-alone at night by the
camp fire-he and his bosom debate
awhile, and he is led to speak of the
emptiness Of royalty and ceremony.
This speech, which ranks with the
finest of Shakespeare is one which
today is almost beyond the comprehen-
sion Of the average man. Indeed, 1t Is
interesting TO observe that it is not
much applauded for the reason that il
is spoken entirely from the point of
view of a ltinG-and kings happen to
be in minority as the world is con-
stituted today
Among other things which are interest
ing in this edition, it may be observed
that the compiler of the notes has taken
pains to discover the name of almost
every minor character, such heralds
and other personages who are not men
toned by name in the original text, and
directions are also added to the text, so
that one may almost see the play in read
ing it, understanding the position of every
actor and almost every supernumerary.
CHew York: Mcclure. Phillips & Co.
20 centSl
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17

"A History of Political Parties in the
United States" by James II. Hopkins, is
described in the subtitle as IAN account
of the political parties since the founda-
ton of the Government, together with a
consideration of the conditions attending
their formation and development, and
with a reprint of the several party plat
forms
1t is an interesting book but rather
loosely written, and the style is in no
sense that of a historian. Its chief value
lies in the fact that it contains good
deal of information not before brought
together in this form. and now made
convenient as a work of reference. There
are many picturesque details, skillfully
introduced.
For example here is a comment on the
Harrison campaign against Van Buren.
which shows both the general style OF
the book and it's aim
The Wings thought their candidate
needed no platform. He was the nero
of a victory over the Indians at mp
pecanoe. William Henry Harrison was
made their standard-beareT He was
an upright. plain old man; he lived
in Il log cabin decorated with coon
skins and drank hard cider. with
these elements to appeal 10 the masses,
a vigorous campaign was opened I'M
mense mass meetings were held; mon
ster professions, miles long. in which
coonskins log cabins, and hard cider
figured conspicuously, reused the peo-
pie to the highest pitch of enthusiasm.
He had been badly beaten in 1856 by
his present antagonist. But then there
was no such organized effort-in fact,
there was no organized action. Old
Tippecanoe' was now the slogan ana
stage thunder was tame compared 10
the uproar produced by skiliful the
atrical effects in the conduct OF the
campaign. This was the Hrs'
of many nominations for expediency,
and its success probably caused those
which followed. Webster, Clay, ana
other really great men of the party
had been pusneu aside in order that
the party might win Harrison was
not presented as the representative Oh
any great principle; there had peeh
no declaration of principle by the con-
yention which nominated him. 1t was
SOLELY an effort to obtain power ana
patronage by adventttious clrcum-
stances and il marked the develop
ment of that intense party spirit
which made success the supreme con-
sheraton.
1t will be seen that the author not only
chronicles events, but endeavors to show
their significance in the history OF po-
litical parties. (New York: G. T. Put
mans Sons)
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Grey pilgrims without pouch or staff,
Or dust-stained robe or cookie shell.
Seek We the path to some lost shrine
Here in the desert grim as hell?
No arched cathedral dome bends down,
The earth is iron. the sky is brass,
IT'S ages since these blistered sands
Forgot the touch OF flower and grass.
Stern penance do We for old wrong
Mayhap, or saintship seek from pain,
With supplant hands that never win
The benson of cooling rain.
In heggar rags like that wild t'rong
That once in old Perugia stocd.
We bear your serried scourges J. gh,
fagellante brotherhood.
s. NJ Hall
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our dead are buried facing 10 the sun,
In foolish epitaphs their faith is told;
And vet they died without Victory Hcr,
Leaving IL world in folly growing old
Now WHY should We, among these futile Graves,
Proclaim the truth to dead or living dust.
Bow to the earth like oycrburdened slave
Reborn the freemen of a higher trust!
Have words substance whereOn light mas 7hiaci
Can beatty glow upon trembling sound.
Can aught but deeds foreshadow the divtur.
Or save in symbols the truth be GoundI
Then let doubt defeat your eager hand,
For all must heed though few NAV understand.
Peter Macarthur, in Ainslee's Magazine.
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himself on record as strongly against
the double standard His arguments are
those made familiar in the last campaign.
put in a condensed form, and need not be.
recapitulated. (New York: G.. p Put
mans Sons)
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17

Thou partest sea from restless lovcr-sea,
That. yearning, dream and wait
The wedding OF their waters-soon TO be
When science opes the gate
john b. Tsbb, in the Independent.
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LITERARY NOTES.

>
which it is said:
His earlier years afford a charming
picture of Virginian life before the
war, from which the reader passes to
thrilling incidents of Indian fighting
and buffalo hunting on the plains,
while the boy was on his way to Utah
to qualify for an appointment at An
napolis. The approach of war, the
varied phases of service, the bloody
and dramatic assaults upon Fort
Fisher, and the picture sketched in
cidentally of the gallant young officer
undaunted by wounds, offer chapters
of most vivid interest In the pages
which follow the reader passes from
hunting trips in China, adventures
with cobras in Singapore, or war
clouds in Japan. to tales of ghosts in
the Mediterranean and land cruises in
Liberia and southern Africa. An inner
view is given of the acute Chilean diff
ficulties which so nearly led to war,
and another fresh chapter of history
is told in the graphic accounts of the
clever strategy and ceaSeless vigilance
which demoralized the pirates of the
north on the sealing grounds. The
reader is introduced to the inception
of the new navy, to the development
of the Ordnance Department and work
OF the Lighthouse Board, and to other
phases of professional work which are
sketched in language singularly elO-
quent, simple, and graphic. AT the
opening of the Kiel Canal Admiral
Evans saw much of the German En-
peror. and personal recollections of
the Kaiser nil many most entertain
ing pages. A poem by Kipling
and a fresh sketch of intimate
experiences in the Spanish war
are among the many brilliant fea-
lures of this remarkable book. "A
Sailors Log depicts the old navy I'M
der sail and the transition to the navy
under steam, and the modern battle
ship. As a midshipman Admiral Ev-
ans learned to go aloft and furl sails:
as a captain he has commanded the
cruiser New York and the battleships
Indiana and Iowa. His book suggests
the extent and value of a naval OFF,
GERS work
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17

Is IT true that the Earth wa. created only 4,oo4
years B. CT T. D.
No. The Earth's age is reckoned in
millions of years
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17

October 10. 1885. was the date of the big
blast that destroyed nine acres of Flood
Rock
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17

How many bales OF cotton were exported to
Germany in the years 1898 and 1899? 2. What is
the population of the German Empire? g. II.
In 1898. 1.s5s.524 bales; in 1899. 1.I-s.975
bales 9 81, 1891
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17
Rufus Rockwell Wilson says in the
March "Boukman:"

Rufus Rockwell Wilson says in the
March "Boukman;"
If Thackeray had been minded to
make book out of his American ex-
periences he abandoned it at start
ing. ''As for writing about this coun-
try he says in letter from Boston
to his old friend, Mrs. Proctor. about
Goshen. about Canada flowing with
milk and honey. about the friends |
have found here. and who are help
ing me to procure Independence for
my children, if | cut jokes against
them. may | choke on the instant If
! can say anything to show that my
name is really Makepeace. and to in
crease the source of love between the
two countries. then, please God, ! will.
The laugh dies out as we get old. you
see. but the love and the truth don't.
praised be God, and | begin to think
Of the responsibilities of this here pen
now writing to you with a feeling of
no small awe. The first name ! heard
in the railroad going hence to New
York was my own by pretty child
selling books. So, here it is after if
teen years, think |, here's the fame
they talk about My impression,
though was one of awe and humility.
rather than cXultation, and to pray
God ! might keep honest and tell
truth always.
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Why does not the Administration raise negro
regiments for the Philippines, as they can live
there better than white menl AK.
We don't know.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17

Another volume of the Riverside Bio
graphical series is William Penn" by
George Hodges. The life of the founder OF
Pennsylvania has been written at greater
length, but perhaps never better. CBoston:
Houghton, Miffiin & Co. IS cents)
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viii you please give what information you can
about the United States soop Dart which was
lost with all on board before the civil war;
n
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We have no information on this sub
iect.
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How old is Lord Roberts? c. W. b.
He is in his sixty-ninth year
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In the Philippines; Col. William s. Nc
Caskey. Manila, Philippine Islands.
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Where is the Twentieth Infantry stationed, and
what is the name and address OF the command
ing officer! j. r.
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Thomas jefferson, by Henry Childs
Merwin, is an interesting addition to the
valuable series of Riverside Biographies.
Small as the book is. it gives a vivid and
fascinating picture of Jefferson and OF
the Virginia of his time. Boston: Hough-
ton, Miffiin & Co. rs cents)
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17

Who was the Governor OF Louisiana who offered
500 for Jean Laftte's capture? A. o. r.
Governor w. C. C. Claiborne
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17

How many bills did President BENJAMIN Har-
rison veto? 2. What the public debt at the
establishment of our Government? o. II.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17

When was Hell Gate. in New York. blown upi
MP.
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Our Land and Land Policy" by Henry
George, is to be published by Doubleday.
Page & Co This volume contains some
of his most valuable contributions to the
literature of our land policy. to which his
attention was first turned by remarka-
able map Reproduced as n frontispece to
the volume) showing the holdings of the
railroad in California to be practically all
of the State exclusive of large cities deS-
tents are: Our Land and Land Policy:
The Lands of the United States. The
Lands of California, Land and Labor,
The Tendency of Our Present Land Pol
icy, What Our Land Policy Should Be;
The Study of Political Economy; The
American Republic; The Crime of Power
ty; Land aud Taxation; Thou Shalt Not
Steal" To Workingmen: THY Kingdom
Come" Justice the Disqualification the
Means; Causes of the Business Depres-
sion; Peace by Standing Army.
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from scientific or a literary point of
view. tBoston: Houghton, Mifiiin 4
Co 81
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Nineteen. 2. s76.50o 600. this including the
war debts of the several States assumed
by the National Government.
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These amusing paragraphs are clipped
from Havelock Ellis latest volume en-
titled The Nineteenth Century" and just
published by Small, Maynard & Co. Two
men, centuries hence, are discussing the
long dead nineteenth century. One of
them says:
Il am glad to meet a man who has
studied the nineteenth century and
found it interesting. The few relics OF
it preserved in museums affected me
so unpleasantly, and there We're so
many other things that attracted me
more
Il am sure you spent your time in
a way yoI VIII never regret. But it
il is quite true that. personally, / lind
that period of civilization singularly
fascinating
Civilization? You surely would not
go so far as to call the nineteenth CEN
tury civilized? Apart from the inhu-
mainly of those times in all the mat
tiers that most nearly concern men, 1
thought that even the most elementary
details of social organization-not only
in the more fundamental matters.
which were difficult to arrange, but
even in the simplest mattcrs-wcre
then still unknown | have always
understood that although it was the
custom at that time to write letters
they had no International postage, that
though they We're always travelling
they had no international coinage, and
that though nations We're of more i'm
portance than We can conceivc-aud,
therefore. the need of intercommuni-
cation a primary necessity-they had
no international language. | do not
see how you can speak of civilization
under such conditions"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17

Among the new editions issued by Rand,
McNally & Co. in their popular Oriental
Library, paper covers. are the following:
In Hampton Roads, by Charles Eu-
gene Banks and George Cram Cook; The
Launching of a Man" by Stanley Wa
terloo; Judge Elbridge," by Opie Read;
Ellis Ryan; "A Married MAN. by Fran
els Aymar Mathews; THE Flame in the
Socket" by Adeline Sergeant.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17

How shall | proceed to get my name changed;
in what court and what will be the expense2
f. h.