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Meets Fourth Monday in January. March.
May. July. September and November.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Battle Town Ia. Barnett. Chairman.
Chapel District. Ralph CrigSby
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Clerk If The Circuit Court.
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Attorney for The Commonwealth.
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Prayer Meeting every Wednesday at p IN
sunday Schcc, every sunday a, a.1oa. I'D
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
A ROYAL CHINESE AUTHORIZES.

The Empress ConsOrt of the Emperor Yung
Lo of the Ming dynasty in A u. 1905 committed
TO paper her thoughts on the behavior of women
under the title of instructions for the Inner
Apartments" i. e.. for women. These are ar
ranged under twenty headings. with an addi-
tonal chapter the education of girls. The
Empress lays much stress on gentlcness. good
temper. economy, kind treatment of the young
and of relatives. but thinks that speech I'M
restrained is the real rock upon which most
women split.
If your mouth is like closed door your
words Will become proyerbial: but if it is like
a running tap no heed will be paid to what you
say"
In her additional chapter education, which
IS really more OF less dOggerel poem of about
800 lines, our authoress will be considered very
disappointing by some. So far from pleading
for higher education for Chinese women. she
urges only that girls governess should teach
her pupil To practise filial piety. virtue. pro-
duties. Il preparation for her entry into mar
ricd life Then if she has no children to con-
tinue the ancestral line she is not to show
jealousy. but rather satisfaction if her husband
takes a subordinate wife. Surprising that he
dies before her, she will be left like earth with
out its heaven, and must transfer her depend
to her son, and summon up her resolution
to face WidowhOOd until death. Mount T al may
crumbe away she may have to walk over
sharp-edged swords but this resolve must not
pass from her. Examples are given of herOnes
of all ages who have died by hanging or drown
ing themselves rather than violate their mar
ridge vow:
Their bodies indeed suffered injury in life but
their names will be fragrant for ten thousand
generations "-(Herbert a. Giles in The Nine
teenth Century.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
TOM SHERIDAN.

At the east corner of Bolton-st (now No. 81
PiccadillO there fourished, when the nine
teenth century was still young, a club devoted
to dandyism. diners de luxe and high play
or, to speak cynicaly, the ruin of mind, body
and estate. 1t was called Walters Its pre-
siding genius or perpetual president" was
Beau Brummell, famous for his cravats his
quarrel with the Prince Regent and his phe-
nOmenal good luck at the then fashiona BILE
game of macao. One evening he found the
gaming table SO full that there was no room
for him, but seated there was friend of his
whom he knew to be too poor to play for the
extravagant stakes affected by the habitues
and who probably would not have been there
at all but for the rosy influence of a good din
ner with plenty of good wine. After a word or
two the friends changed places, and before
long Brummell rose the richer by FL 500 This
sum he faithfully shared with his friend say
ing There Tom, go home and give your wife
and brats q supper. and play more" The
action was kindly and the advice good, and
though the words lacked somewhat of respect
the pill was well gilded. Tom the hand
some witty, spoiled son of Richard Brinsley
Sheridan OF Tom 1t has been said that he
was endowed with all the wit OF his father
all the charm of his mother and the good looks
of both Few men seem to have been more uni
versally liked and when George Colman wrote,
II love and esteem Tom Sheridan heartily and
wish success to any scheme In which he Ia in
terested," he only expressed general seno-
ment-
few specimens of Toms wit have been pre-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
ISABELLA BISHOPS FIRST JOURNEY.

The first of all her many Journeys was under
taken to try to break habit of sleeplessness.
She went with some cousins to Canada, and
after that travelled by herself from one set of
friends to another. once in u train going to
New-YOrk she was dreadfuly tired, and yet she
had feeling that, if she went to sleep. the man
sitting next her would pick her pocket. She
struggled for some hours against her inclina-
ton, but having for Il moment given way. she
awakened to feel the hand of her neighbor gent
ly Withdrawing her purse from her pocket.
Young and inexperienced in travel though she
then was she considered slowly what course
she should pursue. In her purse. besides some
money, which was, comparatively speaking, of
small moment there was her baggage ticket.
That was the only thing that really mattered.
If she accused her neighbor of theft, nothing
was simpler for him than to drop the purse out
of the open window beside which he sitting.
No; she determined she would leave any inter
ference until they arrived at their destination
She secured the services of a porter, and, with
apparent calmnesS, followed her travelling COM
panion down the platform. Having described
her luggage to the porter, she, at the critical
moment bowed slightly to the pickpocket, and.
with an airy smile. said: This gentleman has
my baggage ticket" which he Immediately pre-
scented to her. I wonder whether the money in
the purse paid his travelling Representatives,
woods Magazine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
TURGENEV IN TIE 1O'S.

But there We're other things in Paris besides
these drcgs of revolution. NJ. Turgenev was
there, and it to be our privilege to make
his acquaintance. In those days TurgeneV was
not the accepted classic that he has since be
cCme. had learned to know and appreciate him
from G. II. LeWes and George Eliot, who had
yeritable cult for the great Russian, and our
old friend, NJ. KOvalevski, had promised to pro-
cure for me the pleasure of u visit from him.
So we waited in our modest apartment. very
high up 1 afraid, in a Paris hotel for the
arrival of the great man. Punctual to a moment
almost he came. and sitting down, he said in
his perfect eighteenth century French: We'll
mes amiS, Kovalevski tells me that you read
my books, and would like to me- Here 1
am Now, what shall talk about
He said that we had long afternoon before
us, and could have a real conversation" Were
we interested in the social question in Russia?
Wouldn't like to ask questions? And he
himself began the questions by inquirng which
of his books we had read, and which liked
Elena in the English translation ON the Eve. )"
''Recits' had come to be written. and of the
consequences the book had entailed upon him.
He gave wonderful account. too. of his
reception by the students. men and women, at
the University of Moscow. and Of the touching
welcome they had given him He said that
was right, thousand times right. to put Elena"
first. He considered it to be the best and trUeSt
OF his novels. And talked and talked If
the state of Russia, of the barbarous treatment
of the COmmunardS in Paris and many other
things, till the evening drew on and he had to
rush away to dinner.-(MrS. Frederic Harrison
in Cornhill Magazine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT.

Sir William Harcourt once said of an emf
nent statesman that he did not understand the
British Constitution because he had never been
a Protestant a Wing. He has himself been
called the last of the Wings, and he used him
self to say that he and Dean Stanley were the
last EraStlanS. These summary judgments are
not to be trusted The doctrine that the law
is above the King and that the state is above
the church is bound up with the Establish
ment and with the House of Hanover No
doubt Sir Williams Professionalism, at least on
its secular side, conspicuous, and no
amount Of association with Radicals ever quite
I'M Winged him. An aristocrat playing the
part of a democrat, he could not forget that
he was a HarcOurt. and he practised the old
fashioned vice of family pride. But if he had
an imperfect sympathy with a generation
which cared nothing for grandfatheTs. and was
so far behind mis- age, at least he deSpiSed the
sordid ignOble who enter Parliament in
search of titles, or to get into society,"" in
the vaner hope of becoming gentlemen" His
own title. which he failed to escape, i'm
posed on him Il condition of becoming So
lictor General in 1873 If he had been the son
of a mushroom peer, he would have been eX-
tmpt. But the blood of all the Harcourts and
the Nernons was, such the anomalies of
our Constitution, inadequate for the purpose
(Herbert Paul in the Contemporary Review.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
THE MEALS FOR POETS"

The breakfast party became fashionable in
the early decades of the last century, Samuel
Rogers being one of the principal hosts. Round
his table gathered all the wits and celebrities
of the day At his house in st. James's Place
Byron and Moore first came together over a
mess of potatoes and vinegar" 1t was IN his
dining room that Erskine told the story of his
first brief and Grattan that OF his last duel
while the Iron Duke described Waterloo
battle of giants" Rogers asked people, it was
currently reported. by way of probation for
dinner; but his breakfast parties were more
social than his dinners which, comparatively
speaking, were affairs of necessity form
His invitation notes We're models of penmanship
and concseness ''Wil you breakfast with me
to-morrow?-S. r." was the pithy invitation to
a celebrated wit. Won't l - was the cOngental
response. He was fond of quoting Rousseau's
profession of un govt fin pour les d6jeuners-
the time of the day when we are quietest and
talk most at our ease Greville in his Memoirs
notes one of these breakfasts in 1881. sydney
Smith, Luttrell. John Russell and Moore ex-
cessively agreeable. | never heard anything
more entertaining than Sydney Smith-sucn
bursts of merriment and so dramatic Break
fasts are the meals for poets | met Words
worth and SOuthey at breakfast. Rogers's are
always Observation-Disclosures Journal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
SENATOR HoAR,s REGRET.

Knowing his countrymen our Foreign Office
never know them, Senator HOar felt that
our dipIomacies were starved and stunted be-
cause the Duke of York did not attend the
funeral of President Mckinley. The heir TO the
throne off their coast at the moment it's
President died a quick dispatch boat could
have conveyed to him the tidingS of the tragedy
and death The Senator portrayed to the
sPlendor of this lost opportunity; the arrival
of the warships and the royal cortege in New
York Bay; the bewilderment OF the nation as
to who were the visitors. its awakening to
such vivid recognition OF kinship. Such a
visit at such moment would have entranced
the nation in its day Of deepest distress; il
would have effaCed a hundred episodes of a
maladrOit diplomacy And 1 had hoped that
by some happy inspiration the head OF
Church then in America might have Officiated
at the funeral of our good friend and Senator;
how it would have touched the hearts of New
England 1t is these incidents which really
make history. and make it well and truly with
a nation whose historic sense precedes every
material consideration. In the accounts pub
lished in America OF Lord Salsbury's funeral
the presence of Lord Exeter in the family pew
at Hatfield was the text for innumerable edi-
tcrials: il was agreeable to their historic per-
spectiye: and yet two nations are far
nearer our day and generation the family
stem than are the EIeters and the Saiisburys
ON the good Cecil stem--(Moreton Frewen IN
National Review,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
WHY RUSSIAN SOLDIERS SING.

1t has been pointed out TO me by an enlight-
ened critic that must be mistaken in describing
the lot of the Russian soldier as unhappy
one. Russian regiments always sing on the
march," he explains and therefore. or course,
the men must be happy He IS perfectly right
about the singing. Russian soldiers are always
singing; they sing the march. they sing IN
the train. they sing whilst they are eating tnelr
black bread and kapusta (sour cabbaSe). they
sing in the kharChevna public house, have
also seen a gang of over 100 prisoners in CHAINS
on their way to Siberia and they, too. sang rs
they marched to the station. and afterward in
the train. l suppose. therefore, that they must
have been quite happy and cOntented
An American humOTist has told us that a Ger
tain amount of fieas is good for a dog; ne passes
the day in scratching himself. and 50 torgetS 70
brood over the misery OF being a dog. Ask the
Russian soldier WHY he is always singing. and
he will give you much the same reason lie
passes the day in singing. and SO 1orgets 10
brood over the misery of being a SoIdler--tCarI
Joubert in The Nineteenth Century.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
COMPOSITION IN COURSES.

Southey was another methodcal and rapid
literary craftsman. Il am quiet, patient
easy going hack of the mule breed: regular
ClockwOrk in my pace, sure-foOted, bearing
the burden which is laid on me, and only OBJ
stinate in choosing my own path" he wrote to
a friend. But his method was by no means
simple. He was a poet. historian, critic
and a miscellaneous writer; he turned out an
enormous quantity of matter. and succeeded in
doing so by working fourteen hours a day
and diversifying his labors within his daily
round. He had six tables in his library. He
wrote poetry at one, history at another criti-
cism at n third, and with the other sub
jects upon which he engaged. and when
he tired of spinning his brains into verse
he turned to history and criticism. There is a
story that he once described to Nine. de Stael
the division of his time-two hours before
breakfast for history, two hours for reading
after, two hours for the composition of poetry.
two hours for criticism, and so through all
his working day. And pray. Mr.. Southey."
queried the French woman. somewhat unkind-
ly when do you think?"-(Cornhin Magazine
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13

where fighting is going on. or slave hunting
pr some other picturesque form of excitement
He likes to put one of them aboard cholera
SHIP another in a inhabited by pro-
digious monster and so on. Sometimes he Is
TOO lurid painting horrors as though the nor
rible just by itself were profoundly Impressive
AS a matter of fact he makes it, in more IMAM
one case very nearly absurd. Sometimes too'
his sentimentality is positively sloppy But
these lapses of his exceptional In nearly
all of his sixteen stories he is original without
being sensational, he treats of entertaining
adventures in a tersely entertaining fashion,
and exploits the vein which We associate with
Mr. KipIing without sacrifice of his own indi-
viduality. atoms of Empire is a capital
book of spirited yarns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
MOZART AS A DRAMATIC COMPOSER.

Mozarts reputation as a dramatic composer
must chiefly rest upon his two great operas
lie Nozze di Figaro" and Don Giovanni even
though Beethoven hailed die Zauberh0te' as
the first flower of true German opera; while
Weber says that ''in Die Entfuhrung' Mozart
had reached the full maturity of his powers
an artist, and that his further progress was only
in knowledge of the world" But charming as
this romantic opera is it cannot be compared
with his later works a example of his
ture dramatic power. 1t written when he
was about twenty-hve; lie NOZZe'' in 1856. when
he was thirty; Don Giovanni" the next year;
and four years later he hastily thrown into
his pauper's grave the exact locality OF which
has never been asCertaned. In these last men,
toned operas. the subjects of which were chosen
by himself, he at last not only found themes
mat gave full scope to his genius. but lbretti
mat were good stage plays. 1t is strange how
seldom composers realize the fact that, how
ever good their music may be, it depends finally
UPON the iibretto whether opera will keep the
stage or not Mozart had already suffered at the
hands OF his poets" but now he found in the
Ahoate Da Ponte a sympathetic collaboration
ana anxiously superintenGed the production OF
the text himself To Da Ponte the world owes
debt Of gratitude for the rare excellence of his
wo1H Goethe. In writing to Schiller. who hoped
tnat opera might help to develop q nobIer CON
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
Interesting I,1dixidualifieS.
Regard Persons
in a and

served; better than reply to his
fOOlishly indulSent father when demonstrating
with him for imprudence. The father
ended by saying. "Why, Tom. my father would
never have permitted me to do such thing
Whereupon Tom replied, in tone of assumed
Indignation Sir would you dream of compar-
ing your father to mine?"-( Longman's Maya
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
.rYour hnpes for tho

ceptfon OF tragedy saws: your hopes for the
opera are richly fulfilled in Don Juan. but the
work is completely isolated. and MOZarts death
illustrates any prospect of his example being fol-
lowed" Goethe had himself desired to see his
Faust treated as an opera by MOzart--(L'r-
John Todhunter, in The FOrtnightly Review
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
A PUNJAB ~GUNPowDER PLOT"

Some rather amusing cOrreSp OnueAce-diiiu
ing at least on one side-Once passed between
two high officials, Sir Charles MacGregor VINO
commanded the Z. F. F., and Sir AneaS PERKINS,
who at that time was chief engineer of the run
lab. The occasion resulted from an Inspection
by Sir Charles of fort between kohat ana
Bannu called Bahadur KheL This fort Wnlch
was built in the early days of our frontier Occu-
IA ton has in the interior a double StOfleu
keep the upper story of which is used as an
officers resthouse and the lower story as store
or so-dOwn. Sir Charles arrived there one eN
ing and slept in the resthouse. Next morning
ne made his inspection of the fort. and among
other places he ordered the store, over which ne
had passed the night. to be opened He saw IN
side a number of barrels. What are these ne
said. They are gunpOwder barrels, sir, was
the reply Good heaVens.'' said the astOnlshed
general do you mean to say L was sleeping
last night over gunpOwder? Who is responsible
for putting them there" THE Public WORKS
Department. sir There was no great love lost
between the general and the chief engineer, so
the former officially in his seVereSt man
ner to the latter. pointing out the carelessness
and laxity which had been displayed, rubbing IL
in for all he was worth. However, he reckoned
without his host In his reply Sir Eneas re-
GREETED that Sir Charles was nervous about the
matter chose who knew MacCiregOr aware
that a Drawer man never breathed), but that
there was no real cause for apprehension, since
sleeping above gunpOwder barrels was quite IN
attended with danger as long as the barrels
were empty! If Sir Charles had made further
local inquiries he would have been informed
that after use on the construction of the ad-
jacent road the empty barrels were stored in
the forte Colonel G. Scott MOncrien, c. l. Z, IN
BIackwood's Magazine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13

y
1t is we'll not to try to speak too soon Ran
delphi Churchill only opened his mouth once dur
ing his first session, and that was to ask a queS-
ton. John Morley sat watching and listening
for months before he Yentured to catch the
Speakers eye. and his first performance was by
no means successful. We all know the story OF
Disraelis early collapse and a more tragic cpl
sode is thus related by Lord NOrths son. Fred
erck: Il once attempted TO speak in Paria-
mtnt. | brought out two or three sentences.
when a mist seemed TO rise before my eyes L
then lost my recollection, and could see moth
ing but the Speakers wig, which sweled and
swelled till it covered the whole House; then
sank back in my seat and never tried to speak
again, and Immediately applied for the Chiltern
Hundreds, feeling convinced that ParliarTfenI
was not my vocation
Psychologists have never attempted TO ex-
plain why people who are loquaciOus. and even
garrulous as long they m1intain the sweet
security of Il seat. halt and stutter. and perhaps
break down hopeleSsly. when they attempt TO
speak their legs. Every one Of US must some
time other have suffered from one or these
sudden lapseS Of memory Lord RoSebery, not
long ago, came TO a dead halt in the middle OF
a speech: Loves hopeless collapse in the House
of Commons is still painfully remembered. and
poor Black Rod, his first appearance, clean
forgot the message from the Lords; not even
Campbell Bannerman's promptngs restored his
memory, and the Speaker was obliged to say
that he understood that message was being
brought TO ask the attendance of the Lower
House in the Lords. And even Jupiter has nod
ded. Mr.. Gladstone himself once lost his cue
and stopped abruptly; when DsraeH bent for
ward and said, 1.-THE right honorable gentle
mans last word 'so-and- So "-CR- lar
quharsen. Nj. p. in LOnsTuaR's Magazine
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13

Mr. Owen Seaman. the parodist, who has car
ried on in verse the tradition of Calverley and
Stephen enrching it with qualities of his own.
has brought out under the title of "A Harvest
Of Chan' a further collection of his contributions
to Punch" The book is not wholly humorous
1t contains writings in serious vein, as for ex-
ample these lines, addressed to Mr.. Austin
Dobson:
At sixty years when Aprrs face
Retreves. now. the winters cold.
Where tales of other springs are told
You keep your cOurtIy pride of place.
Within the circles charmed space
You rest unchallenged of old,
AT sixty years.
Not Time nor Silence sets its trace
On golden Tyre and voice of gold:
Our Poets Poet, still you hold
The laurels got by mans grace
At sixty years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13

The government of Holland has taken steps to
Establish in Rome a Dutch historic institute,
which will serve centre for scholars search
ing the Italian archives for fresh light on Dutch
history. Enough money has been voted to keep
the enterprise going for five years.
Arizona republican., 1904-12-12
TWO nExICANS KILLED
Were Crushed by Falling Rock Under Which They Had Sought Shelter.

distressing accident happened last Monday forenoon on PinaI mountain, near the first site of the KeIlner saw mill, which resulted in the instant death of a man named Pedro Mendez and Refugio Valenzuela, half grown boy, says the Globe Silver Belt
 They were camped under a shelving rock which projected about F feet, and under which they had built a fire The rain had penetrated the crevices of the rock and the action of the heat and water together. probably aplit the rock and the large slab, weighing eight or ten tons, fell upon the unfor- tunate Mexicans. crushing them into unrecognizable shapes.
 The mother of the boy who was in tent nearby, heaEd the, noise made by the falling rock, and upon discover ing the awful accident, sent Blaz Valenzuela to Globe to inform the au- thorities. she remaining alone with the dead until the following morning, when Justice Carico and Bob Mo Broom arrived. and with considerable difficulty rolled the rock off the bodies and brought them to town.
 An inquest was held Wednesday forenoon, and a verdict of accidental death rendered.