The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-15

York Times has notice OF a novel by
Miss Sutherland
The review is long and friendly, and 1t
will mako the amiable Duchess easily
forgive an informally.
1t may even show to her that the COM
pliments paid to her as a novelist are not
merely an indication Of that generous
one Of Edmund Burkcs most familiar
passages.
2 However. the New York Times moves
in aristocratic sets and such mistake
may hurt the feelings of Its patrons
In the matter OF correspondence with
foreigners. titled English women would
do well to follow their French sisters,
who sign their letters. even to friends.
'Duchesse de A." or "Comtesse de
B" Like this, there would be no
Legion Of Honor.
The nominations and the promotions
In the Legion of Honor are almost over.
These take place twice a year. on the
LIST Of January and on the 18th OF July,
the national fete Of the French Repub-
lie.
Each minister Of the cabinet had his
that the cabinet are in a great state Of
perplexity. Meetings are held every day.
The projects Of all the departments
have received orders to make searches
all over their districts.
All the commissioners Of police and their
detectives are on the alert. at work day
and night, to discover the whereabouts
Of that Frenchman who Is not. decorated
For it appears there Is one who Is not
the only one who has escaped 1t.
In the meantime, the French minis
try have paid q delicate compliment to
America by comforting the Legion Of
Honor on some Americans among whom
see the name of my friend. Melville E..
Stone, general manager OF the Associated
Press, and the President Of Harvard
University.
get the Legion of Honor. They have
done something, which cannot be said of
half the Frenchmen who have it.
Then and Now.
Colonel Lynch, who was recently con.
demned to death for having borne arms
against England. whose Nsentence was
committed to penal servitude for life,
and who will be set free In couple
gods of Olympus that he was not born
two hundred and fifty years ago.
In those days an ,Englishman convicted
OF high treason was condemned to be
hanged disembowelled. burned behead-
ed and quartered all in succession.
The following is the sentence pronounced
on the Jacobite Lords Kilmarnock and
LoYat: 1.-THE sentence Is that you return
to the prison Of the Tower from whence
you came; from thence you must be
drawn to the place OF execution; when
you come there you must be hanged by
tho neck. but not till you DO dead; FOR
you must be cut down alive, then your
bowels must be taken out and burned
before your face; then your head must
be severed from your body. and your
body divided into four quarters; and
these must be at the disposal OF His Most
Gracious Majesty the King.
And may God Almighty have mercy
on your soul"
This revolving doom was committed to
decapitation pure and simple.
The last unfortunates on whom the
first part of the sentence was carried out
literally were Bobington and Ballard. In
connection with the Catholic plot against
Queen Elizabeth on scafford erected
in tho middle Of Lincons Inn Fields, on
the 10th Of September, 1855
The Queen was SO Mortified when she
heard Of the grewsome details that she
ordered the remaining consplrators, twelve
in number. who were to meet their fate
on the following day, to DO hanged till
they were dead, and no moro.
When an English culprlt Is hanged now-
ndays a doctor examines his body and
signs certificate of death. after which
the jury orders tho burial Of the corpse.
In the good old tines the fees Of
that doctor were saved. No certificate OF
death was needed,
The Germans
Our German neighbors are a sorely tried
people Everything that they do In the
Kindness OF their heart with friendly In
tcntlons, Ia misunderstood.
Just now all the leading papers are boz
moaning their sad fate,
German Warships have bombarded and
destroyed Venezuelan fort.
Now III these Venezuelans We're able
to think right. they certainly ought to
that this bombardmant was
a real blessing to all concerned ana that
they ought ia be extremely grateful for It.,
Thus writes a leading German paper,
b And &c adds; IL few Villagers wore