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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24

earls OF that name may be traced one dramatic
tale after another-tales OF Geraldine warfare
with English Kings. OF lordly rule of bold re-
volt and shOrt-lived submission. There was 4
picturesque scene in council when Earl Gerald
was called to account by Henry VIII for the
burning OF Cashel Cathedral after a quarrel
with the Archbishop. The Irish noble did not
trouble himself with any weak excuses by
my troth," said he, 81 would never have done
1t. but thought the bishop was in it" The
humor in the bloodthirsty speech amused bluff
Harry" who. hearing an exclamation to the
effect that all Ireland could not rule this man.
promptly retOrted. Then he shall rule all Ire
land" Earl Gerald accordingly went home as
Lord Deputy. but his successors vexed succeed
ing English sOvereigns very much after his
fashion. On that family tree bloomed i'm the
next generation the Fair Geraldine, the COM
panion Of King Henry's neglected little daugh-
ter Mary. and the girl whose praises were
chanted by the tuneful Surrey. In Lord Ed
wards veins there flowed also the blood of
another fascinating woman, Mary Stuart-for
he was. through his mother. the Duchess of Lem
ster, the great-great-grandsOn OF Charles II and
Louise de Querouaille Light hearted. warm
hearted. clever and brave the boy all men,
and was. in truth. the epitome of the most engag-
Ing qualities Of the Celtic character. He had all
the promise of n notable career. and his sacri-
flee Of himself to a struggle hopeless from its
beginning is one of the saddest features in Ire
lands story.
1t was impossible. I'm the nature OF things
that the rebellion CT 1898 could succeed-alas
for its grIevous waste of brains. daring and
unselhsh DEVOTION! 1t is more than doubtful
il even really prompt and vigorous aid from
the reluctant French Directory would have full
filled Fftzgeralds expectations His biographer
devotes considerable space to his negotiations
with the French NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. which
his boyish frankness revealed to a chance tray
elling companion. who Immediately communi-
Gated his condolences to the British government
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24

In truth Lord Edward was not cut out for a
conspirator. To have carried through the en-
terprise upon which he engaged needed some
thing more than courage. hatred Of wrong ana
an attractive personality. He was a good sol
dIer, but not leader. His mind was quick
but not strong. his Judgment was often at
fault his sympathies almost too ready.
He a lieutenant in the British army AT
seventeen, and gained most of his experience In
active service in this country during the last
year OF the Revolution. He was reprimanded
by Lord RawdOn for reckessly going OF on
reconnaissance Of his own being discovered In
a hand to hand fight with two American Skin
mishers. He was in the engagement at Eutaw
Springs. and there, when lying wounded and
unconscious, was rescued by a negro, who
nursed him in a forest cabin until he recOv-
cred. and who never afterward left him. Sew
eral years later the young soldier spent eighteen
months in Canada with his regiment, idling
mostly-skating. dancing. hunting. travelling
through the woods with a party of Indians:
They were very kind to u.s. wrote Lord Ed
ward, who. with his singular faculty of making
friends with all sorts and conditions OF men,
had evidently entered upon terms of good fell
lowship with them at once, "and said we were
all one brother'-all one Indian . . You
would have laughed to have seen me carrying
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24

Pamela 20 pose and be charming-that rrhf
childish nature showed sign OF nObIer les
sons. The "SyIph." as Lady Sarah Lennox
called her. was a capricious. bewitching. fair
weather companion. the natural choice OF an
impulsive. romantic boy. but the last woman
in the world to strengthen the hands OF poIit-
icaI leader. The life of the young pair In Ire
land was for a year or two idyL Il have
paled in my little flower garden before ny han
door," Lord Edward wrote to the mother he
adored. "and stuck it full Of roses. sweetbrier
honeysuckIe and Spanish broom have got all
my beds ready for my flowers. so you nav
guess how 1 long to be down to plant them.
The little fellow will be a great addition to tia
party. / think when I am down there with Pam
and child. of a blustery evening. with good
turf fire and a pleasant bOok-cOming in after
seeing my poultry put up. my garden settled
flower beds and plants covered for fear OF frost
the place looking comfortable and taken cara
OF. 1 shall be as happy as possible; and sure
am 1 shall regret nothing but not being nearer
my dearest mother and her not being OF the
party"
This Is not the language OF a conspirator. and
in fact his subsequent appearance in that
character was a consistent failure He was
chivalrous trusting and generous romantic
bOy"-and he had nothing OF the ruthless win
which work such as that he undertook has
always required. The story Of his futile efforts
and Of his betrayal by an associate upon whom
he relied is wildly told in this volume, and
there is much pathOs in the account OF his death
from the wound received while resisting arrest
That death was doubt matter Of congratu-
latiOn to the government, thus relieved OF the
necessity OF dealing with q most Troublesome
question
The benevolent. merry, afTectionate young
fellow who should have spent his life as a coun-
try squire died death heroic in its fortituds
and resignation: and Pamela, his wife, went
futtering down long years to an end OF priva-
ton and Obscurity-always 4 butterfly. silly.
weak and melOdranatic-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24
Il STORY ABOUT DISRAELL.
Hon the Oracle Was Questioned IA Eaia

Hon The Oracle WGs Questioned n TGia
From NJ AP
troublous affair Is to an eye that can dis
Germ the comic side Ike a cloud with silver
lining. and the lining often makes more impress
sion than the cloud
1 can illustrate my meaning BY an anecdOte
OF Mr.. DisraeH and my late father Sir Stafford
Northcote- In the good old Parliamentary days.
when the closure was not. and when WedneS-
days were still Wednesdays, il was the habit
or Mr. Disraeu on that particular day OF the
week TO absent himself from the House OF Com
mons, which at other times he attended with
the most praiseworthy sedulity. 1t was seldom
that any matter OF public business intTude0
Itself upon those afternoons. which were devOt-
ed to the requirements OF private members,
and the head OF the government could. rule.
be very well spared But upOn one particular
occasion that can recall there arose 4 difh-
Guilty, novel. Unforeseen and formidable There
could be doubt that the Ministry had got
themselves INTO little bit OF trouble, and me
way of escape was not Immediately patent Sir
Stafford NOrthcOte. who was temporarily lead
ing the house, at length decided that Mr. Dis
raei must be summoned Messengers were sent
forth. and the great man was sought for and
found He Obeyed the summons OF necessity
but he did so with sad lack OF good viii, and
in fact. he arrived at Westminster in anything
but an amiable temper.
He greeted his colleagues with the severe re-
mark. delivered in the most gloomy tone that
they had entirely disconnected his plans for the
day, though he did not. believe, mention
whether those plans involved the maintenance
Of the empire merely the making OF a holi-
day. One can imagine that apologies were
poured forth in prOfuSe measure, and then ST
Stafford NOTthCOte proceeded 70 narrate the
cause Of all the SOrrOWful business MI DIS
raeli listened in silence. and then arose Now
the knot was to be cut, expectation grew eager,
and at last the words OF wisdom came: You do
seem to have got into q mess don't know
what YOU had better do row. And with that
the oracle conveyed itself away. The humOr Of
the scene was so perfect that, In my IatheTs
eye it utterly absorbed all other eOnsidera-
tons
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24
PEPPIS. PEEPIES. OR WH4Tg
From The London Daily chronicle.

From The London Daily Chronicle
A correspondent tan American. We presurne)
writes to ask how he SHAH pronounce the hAIhs
~ tba evceIIaut diarfst We occasionally quote
DO YOU" he asks. call Pepys Peppis. or Pee
pies or 'Chumley' or WHAT Even among con-
temporary London takers there IS disagree
80 D., tLs question should be settled by one
Mr. lanes CarcasSe, whom PepyS kindly TOOK
in his boat to view the great IRE. and VINO re-
turned the compliment by a somewhat NTu!enA
set OF verses In his volume, Lucida inter-
vaIla-"
Get thea bahind me- then. dumb devil BECOME.
The Lord hath Ephthatha said 70 my t9nsuS
Sent me from Navy to the Ark BY PepyS
Tho rbv+br, e dreadful But the rhyme is con-
cIusive and the man who rOwed In the saua
boat with the diarist called him "Pfpps-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24

The first four of the sixteen volumes in which
Mrs. Paget Toynbee's new edition of WaIpole's
letters is to be completed have appeared They
snow that Cunningham and other editors did n
great deal Of bowlderizing upon these epistles
Mrs TOynbee has discovered that I'm MANY Of
the original transcripts of the letters there was
no INDICATION whatever of the suppressions
made by cOpyists and editors. The thirty-four
letters to Hannah More have many cancella-
IONS and ensures, and that good lady herself
apparently inserted in the text words and
phrases which were not WalpOles In the new
ediuon many OF the suppressed passages have
been restored, and absolutely necessary omis-
Bions are carefully indicated, but in spite Of the
iact That Mrs. TOynbee is doing so much TO
strengthen the integrity of her text-she Is
printing 4O7 more letters than were given in tbe
last edition OF Cunningham, by the way. and
III or these appear in print for the first time
there are not wanting critics to sigh over what
they call the "emasculated" and "mutiIated"
WORK she is placing before the public They
have been answered in a letter written by the
editors husband, who points out the explicit
statement In Mrs. Toynbee's preface that the
passages omitted "are quite unfit for publca-
tion," and adds that TO tolerate mere coarse
ness is possible, but that to print such stuff as
is contained in the omitted portions of Wal
poles letters is quite impossible, "as impossible
as Mr.. Wheatley found it to print certain pass
ages in the Diary Of Pepys." The answer
ought to be sufficient.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24

Princess Kropotkin, writing in 1.-The Nine
teenth Century about books for the multitude
makes some very interesting comments She
is not alarmed by the preponderance of fiction
among the books borrowed from public libra
ries She maintains, moreover, that If serious
literature is to be more widely circulated it Is
not SO much question Of reforming the library
for the purpose as it Is one Of publishing
greater number Of cheap editions AS she says,
n serious book cannot be read in hurry, and a
volume taken from the library cannot be kept
for months Books Of serious matter" she
argues, must be the property of the reader,
and who shall disagree with herr We have
cheap editions of such books in English already,
but not half enough of them France and Ger
many publish thousands of good books in really
cheap editions, and Princess KrOpotkin states
that while the severe censorship in Russia has
ruined many publishers there, her countrymen
nevertheless are particularly well provided with
cheap editions, not only Of the best native
For example, all of Poushkins prose and verse
collected in ten quite decent volumes can be
bought in Russia for 70 cents, the chief works
OF Darwin are published in Russia at 81 %, and
80 on through long list Russian publishers
and publishing societies have for n number OF
years been carrying out this work OF public
enlightenment The fact is the more impressive
when we consider that as the princess re-
marks, government prosecution In matters per-
tanning to education and the press have been a
long and great tragedy In Russian life"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24
THE NATIONS IN LITERATURE.
From The London Globe.

From The London Globe.
In the year 1902 Germany published Of books
and pamphlets nearly u 600 and the United
States only about a third as many On the OIneF
hand the United States published 2lOuO news ".
papers and periodicals, and Germany ohiy a -, ~
tie more than a third as many. In the ereatle9
works, novels romances and works or pure I'M
aginatiOn. England leads the world; Germany =
ahead in educational and theological WoIAS ~ ~.
books for the young. France runs copIOuSLy -
history. and Italy to religion Fiction NANNY
rules in the United States
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24
n ROMANTIC BOY.
The Story Of Lord Ed7card Fitz-
gerald.

THE LIFE OF LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD.
1763-17gS. BY Ida A. Taylor. Svo, pp. S47- Bren-
tanoS.
Handsome, brilliant. lovable. and martyr to
a forlorn cause Lord Edward Fitzgerald is one
of the most romantic figures in the history of
the eighteenth century. The charm of him and
the tragic end of his short life are calculated
to appeal strongly to feminine writer. and 1t
is only natural that the author Of this biography
should make her pages vibrate with sympathy
and enthusiasm If she could not refrain from
sentimentalty she has been, at least, reason
ably careful in treating facts Those who would
like more detailed description of the state Of
affairs in Ireland which led to Fftzgerald's
death must look elsewhere; here there is merely
a scanty political background for the portrait
OF the gallant young man who died in his Dub
lin prison quiet June evening Of 1893
Romance was in the very blood OF this son
OF the Kidares. Back through the long line Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24

It is time for the modern novelist to wake
up, to realize that he is practising a trade
which has close relations with the business
world and that there are no laws In the said
world OF which he can afford TO remain in
ignorance NJ. Georges Ohnet published not
long ago a novel called The Poison Merchant"
and in It he gave a baleful significance to a
beverage which he named "abrictonine." But
somebody else, it appears, had previously in
vented the same name for a drink that he
manufactured, and this individual brought suit
against the novelist The latter has been COM
PEELED by the courts to pay damages to the
extent Of 500 francs, to bear the expense OF
publishing the judgment in two newspapers
and TO overhaul his book so that it may no
longer give offence to the outraged purveyor Of
liquid refreshment NJ. Ohnet received cold
comfort when he declared that he had no knowI-
edge Of the particular liquor whose maker had
dragged him into court. He was told to co
and consult the register OF trademarks What
records, we wonder, can the novelist leave I'M
explored without fear OF being subjected to
legal correction? If he touches any province of
human endeavor, any trade or interest" he IS
likely, In his innocence, to wound somebody's
feelings. Perhaps his only hope of safety lies
IN unremiting devotion to archaeological 70
nance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24
THE SILENT LOVER.
BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH

passions are liken'd best to foods and streams;
The shadows murmur, but the dePIhS are
dumb;
So when affection yields DISCOURSE II seei''S
The bottom is but shallow whence they come
They that are rich in words in words discover
THAT thew are moor in that which makes lover.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24

THE LIFE OF LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD.
1877 BY Ida A Taylor Svo. PIP 347. Bren-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-08-20
Tale of the Armada

visions supplied to the Spaniards had
not been paid for. Sir Lauchlane
demonstrated with the don for his
injustice and satisfaction was promis'
ed. On the strength Of this the men
were sent back, but MacLean, not re.
lying entirely on the captains prom
Use, retained three Of the soldiers as
hostages till the debt should be paid.
At the same time he sent one of his
own men, Donald Glas MacLean, on
board the Florencia to receive an adj
justment of tie demands Of his peo-
pie.
Donald Glas. when he went on board
the ship, was disarmed and made
prisoner, and no communication was
allowed between himself and his
friends. But Donald Glas conceived
a plan which, though it meant certain
death to himself, promised a speedy
and terrible retribution to his captors.
Finding that the cabin in which he
was confined was close to the maya
zine, he forced his way into it and,
laying a train from it to the outside,
he fired it. The ship was blown tc
pieces, killing the three or four hun
dred persons who we're on board.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-08-20

Three hundred and fifteen years ago
vessel of the Spanish armada was
blown up in Tobermory bay, off the
coast of the Island of Null. Recently
numerous relics have been recovered
from it by divers. They include old
cannon, swords, pistols, plate and
coins. The vessel was the Florencia,
a Florentine galleon which came from
the Levant, one of the Italian possess
sions of the king of Spain, and was
commanded by one Pereija. After the
defeat of the armada the Florencia
was forced by bad weather and lack
of provisions to put into Tobermory
bay. There Sir Lauchlane MacLean,
who, because of his feuds with his
neighbors, had been made ''denounc-
ed rebel by King James of Scotland
formed an alliance with the Span
iards. With the aid Of hundred SOL
diers from the ship and of his own
war on neighboring clans for some
time.
At last he received a message from
Capt. Pereija requesting that the
Spanish soldiers be sent back at once,
as he was preparing for sea. At the
same time he heard that the pro-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-08-20
Lost Coins in Mails

Ordinarily no man is rich enough to
escape that certain sense of citation
which comes from picking up a nickel
on a sidewalk; but when railway
postal clerk finds such a coin in a
mail pouch where it has worked out
from insufficient wrappings, not only
does he miss this citation, but it may
provoke profanity.
For nickel lost in pouch of mail
in transit becomes matter for ma
tional concern. 1t comes to view,
perhaps, just as a pouch Of mail is
emptied upon sorting table; and
when it has broken away from the
bunch of letters and cards and circu-
lars, rolled to an open space on the
table, and there settled down, heads
or tails, with a noisy spinning dance,
the clerk who first sees it is ''it.
A necromancer could have no more
idea than the man in the moon as to
what particular package it rolled out
of, and if he had and should tell the
postal clerk, the clerk wouldn't dare
try to restore the coin to the original
package. That would be too easy
altogether.
No, it is a lost nickel from the mo-
ment the clerk has to see it spin
ming there Def ore his eyes; and &C
cording to the tender governmental
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-08-20
HUMAN EAR A DEFORMlTY,

Stood Up Till Mashed Flat by Sleeping
on Pillows.
while the ears of animals" said a
naturalist, ''are erect and comely, the
human ear is crumpled, crushed and
fattened. It is mans intelligence that
is responsible for this deformity of his
ear.
MANS brain, you see, has made his
head topheavy. An animals neck
alone furnishes enough support in
sleep, but mans neck is too weak to
sustain his brain-weighted skull, which
in consequence must be laid, with the
ear underneath. upon a pillow.
Man, have no doubt, had an erect
smooth, shapely ear in the beginning.
But his head, with its developing brain.
outgrew his neck's power to support
it. Thence came the head-rest, or pill
low, with it's consequent crushing and
crumpling of the ear, and thence came
the ear Of today, a deformity which,
being universal, is not deemed a de-
fOrmity at all. "-Washington Post.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-08-20

L have always thought Cornelia a
very saint" she muttered, "but Love
is the great revealer. l wonder if she
is IN love-to tell the truth, she was
past finding out. I cannot say that
saw the least sign of it-and between
me and myself, Rem was unreason-
able; however, I am not pleased that
Rem felt himself to be badly used"
And she said her prayers, and fell
calmly asleep, to the f1attering thought.
Il would not much wonder if at this
moment, Lieut.. Hyde is thinking about
me-"
In reality, Lieut.. Hyde was at that
moment in the Belvedere club, singing
the "Marseillaise," and listening to
very inf1ammatory speech from the
French minister. But a couple of
hours later, Arenta's wonder" would
have touched the truth. He was then
alone, and very i'll satisfied; for, after
some restless reflections, he said i'm
patiently:
Il have again made fool of myself.
l have now all kinds of unpleasant feel
lngs, and when 1 left that good doc
tors house I was well satisfied. His
daughter is an angel. praise myself
for finding that out.
Then he rose, threw off his velvet
and lace, and designedly let his
thoughts turn to Arenta. *She is
pretty beyond all prettiness,' he said
softly as he moved about 'She dances
well, talks from hand to mouth, and
she gave me one sweet glance, and
think If she has gone so far-she
might go further"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-08-20

conscience the clerk has to get ready
for the inauguration of about $18.43
worth of fuss over it.
For himself he doesn't dare to go
to bed for short nap until he has
got rid of his five cents worth of re-
sponsibility to the government for the
action of the fool person from whom
the nickel was parted. He digs up
his printed form for such occasions
printed and provided, and at once
fills out a long blank, describing the
coin, telling the circumstances of it's
being found and whether it landed
heads or tails on the table, naming
the pouch from which it was emp
tied, the number of the train carry
ing it, the date, and few other little
details any one of which in hot
weather would have cost a mug of
beer.
This report, with the nickel, goes to
the headquarters of the postal divi-
sion in which the car was operated,
and from these bonded officials, by
the same general red tape route, the
small coin finds it's way to the seat of
national government and to the fund
representing the great constituency
of the postoffice department, which
persists in sending money in envel-
opes through the unregistered mails
of the service.-Chicago Tribune.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-08-20
PHOTOGRAPH WINS A CASE.
Bright Idea That Was Worked by
Clever Lawyer.

Bright Idea That Was Worked by
Clever Lawyer.
A Philadelphia lawyer tells the story
that picture of Fanny Davenport
once won case for him. His client
was suing the Pennsylvania Railroad
company, of which Wayne MacVeagh
was counsel, for $500 damages for
the death of her husband. "Just few
days before the case was to have come
UP she happened into my Office and an.
nounced that she had married again.
Good Lord, madam I gasped, why
couldn't you have waited until your
case came up? It's next to impossible
for me to get damages for you now.
She said she didn't care very much,
and went out, seeming very happy.
well, it just happened that l had a
photograph of Fanny Davenport on my
desk, and when the next day Wayne
MacVeagh happened into my Office to
discuss quite another matter he picked
up the photo and admired it. Who's
your friend?' he asked.
II had a sudden inspiration and I
said: why, that's the lady who is
suing your company for $780,
"'The deuce you say said he. Hand
some woman, isn't she?'
"'She is, indeed" l replied.
"'H-m!' he exclaimed, looking at
the picture closely. A deuced hand
some woman, I should say. A deuced
handsome woman There was slight
pause. .'What'll you take to settle this
case?' he asked.
II thought Of my clients second
marriage, and 7 fixed the figure at
$4,000: The deal was contaminated,
and the case never came to court. t..
New York Tribune. N. 81 ii HIS 3t#..>