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If Colonel Arthur Lynch
Had Been Executed ~ ~
Some Ways in Which His Life Might Have Been
Taken Under English Laws.

muted to transportation for life. He
was sent to Van Dieman's land and
there ended his days.
From a review of certain chronicles
of crime taken from the old Newgate
criminal calendar, it appears that there
were not more than nine of ten trea
son cases during the 10th century in
England and that the most of those
were confined to the first few years
of the century. In one or two of these
instances, however, al large number of
criminals were interested, and their
operations had the magnitude that
made them genuinely dangerous con-
spiracies against the English govern
ment.
OF these the Cato street conspiracy
is one of the most notorious. In 1890
q party of desperadoes planned to
destroy an entire company of min
listers of the government, while the
latter were assembled at a banquet
at Lord Harrowby's mansion. 1t was
arranged that one of the party should
proceed to the house with parcel adj
dressed to Lord narrowly and that
when the door was opened compan-
ions were to rush in and bind the SER
wants, or in case of resistance, kill
them, and occupy all avenues of the
house while chosen band should pro-
coed to the banqueting chamber and
there massacre all of the guests with
the aid of hand grenades. But this
plot was betrayed by member of the
gang. Eleven conspirators, among
them, Arthur Thistlewood, the leader,
were tried for high treason and con-
demned to death by the process OF
hanging, drawing and quartering. The
sentences of six of them We're com
muted to transportation for life, but
the ring leaders suffered the extreme
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-02-21
Born February 81, 1882
SAID BY WASHINGTON.

Be courteous to all, but intimate
with few. and let those few be we'll
tried before you give them your con-
tidence.
The company on which you i'm
prove most will be least expensive
to you.
1t is easy to make acquaintance,
but difficult to shake off, however
irksome and Improbable they are
found, after we have once commit
ted ourselves to them.
1t is maxim with me not to ask
what, under similar circumstances, [
would not grant.
expressly forbid the sale or trans
portation out of the said common
wealth, of any slave l may die pos
sessed of, under any pretense what
soever.
In my estimation, more permanent
and genuine happiness is to be found
in the sequestered walks of con-
nubial life than in the giddy rounds
of promiscuous pleasure or the more
tumultuous and imposing scenes OF
successful ambition.
Without virtue and without in.
| tegrity, the finest talents and the
most brilliant accomplishments car
never gain the respect and conciliate
the esteem of the truly valuable part
| of mankind.
1 shall never attempt to palliate
my own foibles by exposing the err
! ror of another.
Nothing would give me more rea
satisfaction than to know the senti
ments which are entertained of mer
by the public, whether they be favor
| able or otherwise.
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wAsHINGToN's BIRTHPLACE.
Dut Small Monument Marks the
Spot at Wakefield Farm on
the Potomac.

Mount Vernon has become great
mecca for the American tourist; at
Yorktown and Valley Forge stand
tleman of America, while in every
part of the land the smallest memen-
toes of his life and actions are reli-
giously preseved; but in magnificent
decay on the lower Potomac lies
Wakefield Farm, which was associ-
ated with his early life. A simple
granite shaft marks the spot where
George Washington was born, and a
few bricks and stones are all that
remain of his early home.
The old country mansion was
burned early in the last century, but
the brick chimney, within whose arch
four people could sit, and the corner
stones, with portion of the founda-
ton, were saved. Shortly before the
civil war the historic farm passed
into the hands of a family which at
first showed some appreciation for
it's associations. A succeeding gen
Grafton, however, tore down the
chimney and the remnant of the
walls in order to secure the bricks.
A marble slab bearing an inscription
giving the date of Washington's birth
and other information, which had
been set into the great arch, was
removed to the old family grave
yard; but in placing it beneath two
ancient fig trees planted by the moth
er of Washington, it was broken, and
it's fragments lie there to-day, moss.
grown and vine-covered.
1t was in 1895 that the national
government erected at Wakefield q
miniature copy of the Washington
monument, with the Inscription
"Washington's Birthplace" and II
small letters at the base the words:
Erected l,y the United States, A
d. 1895. "-Waldon Fawcett, in Won
mans Home Companion.
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sheriff's deputies threatened, the
breezy way in which he said "me boy"
SO that the syllables caressed the ear,
his gallant attempts to ''star" Mrs.
Mapleson, stage named "Marie Rose"
the soothing manner in which he would
placate an irate tenor whose salary
was two weeks in arrears?
Abbey was business man pure and
simple, with a plunger's nerve. Dam
rosch, who managed German opera
for the subscribers, was a musician,
not at all business man, Mapleson
was a sunny adventurer. Grau is an
unusual ombination-artist and bust
ness man at once. Such men do not
happen often. Even he is worn-out at
Al by the herculean task of hiring
singers, hearing candidates, crossing
the Atlantic twice year, going over
accounts, settling quarrels.
Outsiders have little idea what set
Ting quarrels alone sometimes means.
A prima donna of impetuous nature
has been known to try to stab another
prima donna upon the stage of the
Metropolitan between acts. Ofcourse
Mr. Grau at such crises had to get busy.
1t is nerve wearing.
Grau also managed the spring sea-
son of opera at Covent Garden, Lon
don. That is secondary. In London,
Paris, st. Petersburg, the plant is the
same. New York insists upon taking
away the best singers. New York is
willing to pay the price.
In New York, for instance, consider
it settled that it pays an opera man
ager to pay singer like. Jean de
Reszke $4,000 night-if the people
want him. Three years ago and again
this season, Mr.. Grau opened with an
assured profit upon his books. Nearly
all his boxes and a good share of the
seats were sold in advance.
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is an artistic necessity with some New
Workers, social necessity to others.
At the expense of the latter the former
have for years had the best opera in
the world. Mr.. Grau has been the
agent of the undertaking.
Grau came to this country when he
was five; at 23 he was successful
manager, touring the country with the
Aimee troupe. He at times managed
Rubinstein, the pianist; Capoul, Judic,
Theo, Paola Marie, Angelo.
About that time Yankee lad named
Henry Abbey was running the theater
in Akron, Ohio. Mr.. Schoeffel, hus-
band of Agnes Booth, was managing
the company in which she played. The
three joined hands and when the
Metropolitan opera house was built
managed it fon one disastrous, season,
when they lost quarter of million
dollars. That was 1883. Eight years
later, after the directors of the Metro
politan had tried German opera and
tired of perpetual losses, Abbey,
Schoeffel & Grau were lured to try
again. That first year they brought
over the two de Reszkes, Emma Eames
and Pol Plancon. No expense fright
ened them. They knew the way to
get money in New York was to spend
money. They had made money by
touring Patti after getting her away
from Col. Mapleson by paying her
$4,000 night to sing. Abbey died in
1897 and the company was wound up,
but after years interval new com
pany was formed with several silent
partners and Grau in command. 1t
has made money. That is a novelty
Two Decades of Opera in New York
Grau is different proposition from
Col. Mapleson, his predecessor of most
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recalled the famous Secretan sale in.
Paris. Marquand's pictures alone
brought close to 100000; they were
few, and he had given his best to the
Metropolitan museum during his life
time.
1t is good time to study fads.
Hoppner is now all the rage. Copleys
would be if there were any for sale.
A Hoppner brought ten times as
much as a Raeburn, both examples of
the style of ancestral portrait art
now in vogue. A tiny picture by
Alma-Tadema, famous in feproduc.
ton, brought $97.75 a square inch. A
few good little American pictures
sold for less than one inch worth at
this rate. Even Abbey and Parsons.
Americans of long residence in Eng.
land, and famous among painting
men, sold in several examples for Il
exquisite, all the world admires it,
but
The fad changes from time to time.
Not long ago the modern French
school was the only thing New
York millionaire would bother with.
Some of Mr.. Marquand's century-old
English pictures showing ladies of
the court in quaint costumes of by.
gone days must have brought to his
estate much more than their cost
to him.
With all this money freely spent
by New York men for pictures paint.
ing remains about the worst business
an American can take up, from the
financial point of view. Sargent
alone of living Americans gets high
prices from individuals; but Sargent
is one of the really great artists OF
all time. Abbey and Parsons have
lived largely by their work as illus
traitors, though the former, as tile
painter of King Edwards corona,
ton, will hereafter be fashionable
in London--and OF course in New
York.
OWEN I.ANGEo OH.
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penalty. 1t is doubtful if any set of
men ever went to their deaths with
greater and more unnatural hilarity,
with more bowling and smiling to the
crowd and with more jests among
themselves and to the hangman than
they.
1t is not difficult to determine at
about what time the English con-
science began to demand less cruelty
than had been practiced in the punish
ment of traitors. At the beginning
of the nineteenth century, while the
law continued to be carried out in full
as to quartering, the last acts in the
tragedy of an execution were no longer
performed upon the living body, but
more as a matter of form, after life
was extinct. The "when you are half
dead part of the sentence began to
be left out. This was true at the exc
cution of the band of conspirators,
headed by Col. Edward Marcus Des-
pard, distinguished as man of an
Gent and honorable family, which
planned in 1903 to kill the king in his
carriage and to start an uprising
among the disaffected.
But one has only to turn back into
the preceding century to find plenty
of accounts which tell of the carrying
out of the original sentence in all it's
barbarity. Although cases of treason
were numerous in the eighteenth CEN
fury probably the most notorious of
all was the gunpowder plot with which
Guy Fawkes and numerous compan-
ions were connected. This was no less
than well planned attempt to blow
up the king and parliament and all
the assemblage present at the opening
session of England's great legislative
body. The cellar underneath the
parliament was filled with barrels OF
gunpowder, which We're only discov-
cred 12 hours before the torch was to
have been applied.
A pamphleteer of that time after
giving somewhat too detailed de-
scription of the execution of these
conspirators ends that part of his mar
rative with a word about Guy FawRes,
1.-THE greatest knave of all, who" he
says, "made his end on The gallows and
the block to the great JOY Of the be.
holders, that the land was ended Of sc
wicked villi1n."
MILTON MARKS
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SAID OF WASHINGTON.

Just honor to Washington can only
be rendered by observing his pre-
cepts and initiating his example,
Robert C. Winthrop.
However his military fame may
excite the wonder of mankind, it is
chiefly by his civil magistracy that
Washingtons example will instruct
them.-Fisher Ames.
A great and venerated character
like that of Washington is
not an isolated fact in history to be
regarded with barren admiration--it
is dispensation of Providence for
good.-E. Everett.
He illustrated and adorned the civ
ilization of Christianity and furnished
an example of the wisdom and per-
lection of it's teachings which the
subtlest arguments of its enemies
cannot impeach.- Is. Vance.
George Washington, the brave, the
wise, the good. Supreme in war, in
council and in peace. Washington,
valiant, without ambition; discreet,
without fear; confident, without pre-
srmption.-Dr. Andrew Lee.
! To add brightness to the sun or
glory to the name of Washington is
alike impossible. Let none attempt
it. In solemn awe pronounce the
name, and in its naked, deathless
splendor leave it shining on.-Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Let him who looks for a monument
1 4<> ,.1, no,
United States. Your freedom, your
independence. your national power
your prosperity and your prodigious
growth are monument to him.
Kossuth.
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cut off and your body be divided into
four quarters to be disposed of as his
majesty pleases. and l pray God to
have mercy on your soul"
The law authorizing this sort of
sentence has never been erased from
the statute books and stands as hor-
rible memento of the England that
was, but that has now passed and gone.
The improvement in public sentiment,
and nothing else, has made such SEN
1ence impossible Of its being en-
forced.
England has not been compelled to
deal with treason case for a period
of some 60 years; and the prisoner at
that time arraigned, established a
good case of insanity and was acquitted
of treason, though he was detained,
of course, to await her maiesty's
pleasure" This man was Edward Ok
ford, and he was arrested for attempt
ing 10 shoot Queen Victoria as her
carriage was being driven through the
streets. This was in 1910. At about
the same period, when the Chartist
movement was in progress John Frost
and other enthusiasts of that agita-
tor were arrested for participating in
an armed uprising and were arraigned
for treason. In accordance with the
apparently invariable rule that is fol
lowed when the prisoner is found
guilty, the extreme penalty was first
passed upon them; but their sentences
were committed to transportation.
Later, in 1856, they We're allowed to
return to England Transportation
began to be a favorite penalty in the
first quarter of the century; it was
convenient way of getting prisoners
out of the way without bloodshed when
the demand for leniency cases calling
for capital punishment where the Of
Tense was not appalling, became
strong.
There were perhaps two or three
cases of treason in which, after the ex
IRENE penalty passed, the sentence
was committed to transportation. In
1882, for example, one Dennis Collins
was convicted of high treason for hay
ing thrown stone at King William
". But the prisoner was man Of
some 70 years of age and an old soldier
who had lost leg in his country's ser
vice. For these reasons the death
sentence first pronounced, was com
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The Opera in New York and
Other Gossip from Gotham

rural simplicity. More likely he will
be coaXed back to trying it again. And
in that case he may some day have
the experience of finding that New
York spends money royalty when it
has it to spend, pinches pennies when
it must.
Here is a curious thing. The theaters
of the city have increased in, capacity
25 per cent. in a single year. They
have increased by more than that in
the money it takes to run them. The
houses devoted to society plays tend
to become smaller and more numer-
Gus. Much higher prices for seats are
necessary. For the present there is
money to go around, partly because
the town does really grow better, and
money tat used to be wasted in gam
bling houses OF worse now goes for
legitimate amusement. Theater man
ayers ought to pray for reform as
business proposition.
But suppose commercial crisis
comes and money is scarce? What will
become of the new theaters lavishly
built and committed to earn big rent
ais for the full term of their leases?
The Indian Tribes of New York.
Falling Star is dead. She was the
most beautiful, in some circles the
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most famous, of
the Indians of the
CITY,
There is a set
Element, a "quar-
ter" for people
Of 20 different
nationalities, from
Hungarians t o
Turks. There is
even a quarter on
Hudson street for
native Americans,
the Indians. You
may have read in
Jacoh RiiS'S lat
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Two Decades of Opera in New York.
Grau is a different proposition from
Col. Mapleson, his predecessor of most

Mapleson was
English, by one of
natures blunders.
He was designed
by her to play to
"Col. Sellers" in
a perpetual COM
edy of life. He
had the happy
go-lucky ways of
q n Elizabethan
strolling player.
Who that knew
him will forget
his blithe imper-
tl,rhabi1ity when
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"And now tell me-" said the teacher,
"what George Washington did that
made him great. | see your hand
raised. arthur. What was it?"
Crossed the Delaware standih' up
and didn't rock the boat. Chicago
Record Herald.
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the Metropolitan
opera is a blow to
N e w York = t O
that part of it
which ever sees
the inside of the
opera house.
Z New York isn't
American; it's an
otfshoot of Europe
moved over to the
shore of Yankee
land and sharing
the characteristics
of both sides ofthe
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OF the times they
point to prodi-
gality.
1 wrote last
week about the
death of Henry
G. Marquand. His
valuable collection
of art objects has
just been broken
up in the great
est sale New York
ever saw-a sale
1 h a t drew ex-
Ferts from Paris
and London and
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/ suppose he can
quit rich and en-
joy himself as
C arl Strakosch
does on his Con-
n e C t j C u t farm
with Mrs. Stra-
kosch, who was
Clara Louise KEEL
| o g g turnips,
chickens, horses,
music in the even
ing, trips to- New
York. ] have
h e a + d CT a r a
T,ouiSa, Ka1lnno,
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Indictment for high treason. For
tunately for Col. Lynch, the
condemned man, the sentence of
death, which was pronounced upon
him in accordance with the Eng
fish statutes, has been committed to
life imprisonment and may be still
further lessened-even pardon
sentence was predicted by all, imme-
diately upon its being given out, be-
cause it was known that the public con-
science would not permit of the en-
forcement of the supreme penalty.
This fact serves to call attention to
the marvellous change in the public
conscience in the last century. Ac-
cording to the strict letter of the Eng
lish statutes the lord chief justice
might have lawfully pronounced these
terrible words:
(To the prisoner) g. hold
up thy hand.
You of the jury, look at the prisoner
and harken to the charge: He stands
indicted for that he is a false
traitor against the most illustrious
and most excellent prince our sover.
eign lord
Go the prisoner.) "The judgment
which we give you is that which the
law says and speaks. And therefore
you must go from hence to the place
from whence you came; and from
thence You shall be drawn through
the streets to Tyburn; there you shall
be hanged by the neck, but cut dowr
before YOU are dead your head shall be
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-02-21
In Mndern Times.

If the cherry-tree episode had not
occurred before the days of the for
estry commission no doubt George
would have heard from that body.
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Miss Kellogg Singing IN LOuiSe KellOoU
'>'''AN' '''' upon such trips
sing to the Bohemian dinners at little
Italian restaurant on the West side.
1t is the old stage instinct. 1t will
get Grau. l hardly think he will like
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est book about Mrs. Ben-wah (prob-
ably "Benoit'O and her parrot. Mrs.
Benoit was full-blooded Indian of the
colony. Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Con-
verse is the New York city chief of the
Six Nations. 1t was she who discov-
cred Failing Star, just as she was try
ing to leave New York for Luzernes
N. Y, where other Indians live. The
girl had beauty, and Mrs. Converse
made her stay and pose for artists.
In this way she could earn as much
money in half a day as by making
baskets for a week. So Falling Star,
who was an Abenaki and otherwise
known aA Mrs. Annie Fuller, posed for
the Metropolitan art schools, and for
the Chase schools and at Pratt insti-
tute in Brooklyn. A year ago she met
with an accident, which put an end
to her posing, whereupon she went
back to Luzerne, where she has Just
died
Failing Star was only 40 years old.
Her brother was murdered, her hus-
band and her little son died long be-
fore her, her mother was helpless
invalid. Hers had been hard life
when chance brought her to the at
tention of artists and softened for a
little time her finty way.
The Annual Picture Sales.
This is the time when picture sales
are in order. Like every other sign
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Theuters and Prosperity,

OF course Grau is lucky in having
prosperous years to do business in.
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The threatened retirement of Maui
rice Grau from the management of
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Fehrunrx Twentx-second.

As when traveller down the Widening vale
Looks back, and notes some noble noun
tain pile
That seems to tower nearer. grander still,
As on he hastens DER each fleeing mile;
So, looking backward Ger her rugged
years,
America her freedom bravely Won
With broadening vision pauses to admire
The looming greatness of her Washing
ton.
Albert B. Garner, in S. S. Times
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OR the first time in more
than half a century the
lord chief justice of the
English court has been
called upon to pass sentence
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The Annual Picture Sales.
This is the time when picture sales
are in order. Like every other sign
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The Indian Tribes of New York.
Falling Star is dead. She was the
most beautiful, in some circles the
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-30
COMMERCIAL NEWS
Continued From Page Thirteen.

there was nothing new on the local exchanges.
from Thursday afternoon to Monday over New
Years
The Utah Mining Company has levied an
assessment of I0c.
Ex-divdend yesterday Pacific Coast Borax
Company. regular monthly, 81 per share
amounting to S19 0O0
The Union Trust Company has declared a
semi annual dividend at the rate of 81 per
cent per annum on term deposits and per
cent on ordinary deposits. payable January 2
The Sunnyside Hall and Improvement Com
pany has levied IN assessment OF So per
share. delinquent January %
Wells. Fargo & Co. have declared regular
serni-annual dividend OF 3 per cent and an
extra dividend of L per cent. payable Janu-
airy 10
The Skagit Cumberland Coal Company has
levied an assessment Of 14c per share delin-
quent January %
The Pacific Transfer Company has levied an
assessment of see per share, delinquent Janu-
airy 26.
The California Guarantee Investment Com
pany has levied an assessment Of 81 per share
delinquent January 10.
The Merchants Bank of Berkeley has been
licensed by the Bank Commissioners and is
doing business. The capital is $25 COO OF
which 40 per cent has been paid up. F. S
Page is president. Frank EsmOnd vice president
and F. 5. Page secretary and treasurer.
The South Berkeley Bank Of Berkeley Is be-
ing organized J. L. Barker will be president
Cad Alwyn vice president and f. X Cole
cashier.
Universal Oil Mining Company has levied an
assessment, No. t. of &c per share, to become
delinquent January %