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Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-11

London, March 9.-From informa.
ton received by the British general
staff it is believed that the entire Jap
anese army is assembled on a line with
Pingayng and Wonsan. Whether this
is the first army corps under General
Kurogs or another, whose identity has
been kept secret, can not be learned.
1t is possible that these armies will
eventually be formed of from three to
five divisions each. AL surface indica-
lions point to Pingyang being head
quarters of the general staff which will
control their movements. The weather
is detestable and the advance of the
Japanese must necessarily be slow.
The Russian army, meanwhile, re-
mains quiet along the Yalu. keeping
we'll informed of the movements of the
enemy by means of scouts selected from
the Cossacks. The Russian position is
weakened by the fact that its flank is
on the sea, which will soon be open to
the warships and transports of the en-
envy. Should the japanese srtike at
Newchwaonog they would be in posi-
ton, if they struck hard enough, to
cripple the enemy's forces along the
Yalu river.
If the ice clears off within week or
ten days, as is expected, the world will
be in position to determine whether
the passive Russian Port Arthur squad
ron covers and protects the right flank
and rear of the army.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-11

II a man would use the experience
of others he would never acquire any
Of his own.
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Tombs of Ancient Edifice Hold
Dust of SWlndlerS. Spies
and a Plumber.

got rid OF by placing It In the abbey
with an epitaph which Pope acknowi-
edged to be the worst he had ever
written.
OF ecclesiastical dignitaries and d.
vines there are about four dozen COM
memorated in the abbey and no par
ticular standard OF greatness seems TO
have been applied in determining their
fitness for such an exalted honor. The
great majority OF them have been con-
nected with the abbey. Among them
is Dean Sprat. now chiefly remembered
because he refused TO allow Millions
name to appear in an epitaph to some
body else IN the abbey. But Deans OF
Westminster. whether great or little.
are buried in the abbey as a matter OF
course. Dean Stanley and his wife are
buried IN Henry Wis Chapel, where
the Dean has an imposing monument
and his wife memorial window. Dean
Stanley was sanity and lovabls man.
a great man. too. many might consider
him, but yet he did no such work to
win lasting remembrance as that other
rejected Stanley. without whose name
the history OF Africa. can never be
written.
GREAT WOMEN NEGLECTED.
Apart from actresses, great women
have received the most scant recogni-
tion in the abbey. though memorials
have been bestowed on many OF the
sex there Aphra Behn, the BARRIERS
daughter. perhaps has some claim to
fame as the first woman to earn a liv-
ing by her pen in England, though her
RIGHTEOUSNESS was notorious, and
Charles II made use Of her as a spy
during the Dutch war. BY -ay Of con-
trast it is interesting to note that ac-
cOrding TO the inscription on Mrs. Mar
tina Birch's monument she was
''chaste, wise and prudent, though it
is evident she owes her place among
the immOrtals not to those cOmmenda-
BILE virtues. but TO the fact that her
second husband was a prebendary OF
the abbey.
On the tablet to Mrs. Katherine
Bovey, on the south e OF the great
nave, il is recorded Il her person
and understanding would have become
the highest rank in life, and her vivac-
ity would have recommended her in the
best conversation. but by judgment, as
we'll as by inclination, she chose such
retirement as gave her great oppor-
tunity for reading and reflection.
Apparently, therefore, she is commem-
grated in this temple OF fame because
Of what she might have been had she
no. chosen to be something else. But
the incongruities of the abbey are end
less.
When a great man dies" wrote Sir
Walter Besant, "the Dean should re-
move the monument Of one OF the un-
known to make room for the newcom-
er; in that way the abbey would be-
come more and more the holy field OF
the British empire" This policy viii
have to be adopted soon. The Abbey
has witnessed the elimination OF the
bodies of great men, After the Restora-
ton the corpses Of Cromwell. Ireton
and other notable leaders Of the COM
monwealth were taken from their
graves and subjected to many indigni-
ties. Ilegitimate descendants OF
Charles II fill some Of the places thus
made vacant. Some day perhaps these
latter may in turn be disinterrsd TO
make room for men OF unsullied fame.
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five-year-old daughter of Henry III,
was dumb, but being the daughter Of a
King, and a great King, as things were
looked at in those days, no exception
could be taken to her interment there
with her ancestors. The same heredity
claim may be held TO justify the burial
in the abbey of the little son of Hen
Charles /, although the infant did
nothing more extraordinary than make
a hasty exit from this troubled world
on the same day that he entered it,
tarrying just long enough to get chris
tened. But of most of the abbey chill
dren it may be said that no man knows
why they should have been buried
there. That little Nicholas Bagenall
for instance, was by hys nyrs unfor-
tunately overlay'd" when only two
months old. was doubtless a source of
sore grief to his parents something
more than 800 years ago, but there is
no reason why the childs deplorable
fate should continue to be commemo-
rated by an ungainly black pyramid
and urn when space is needed to make
room for those who have done noble
work for England.
SMITH FAMILY REPRESENTED.
The Smith family is the most numer-
Gus in the country. but if merit were to
determine who among them is most
worthy Of burial in the abbey the
choice would certainly not fall on one
Thomas Smith of whom nothing is
known save the inscription on his tab
let that through the spotted veil of
the smallpox he rendered a pure and
unspotted soul to God" In the south
aisle of the great nave is a monument
to another Smith-John Smith-who
died in 171S- He may have been very
worthy man-nobody knows-but if his
family had not some pull with the dean
he never would have been thus reached
from oblivion. 1t would seem as
though in those good old days influence
could get almost anybody buried in the
abbey. The Duke of Buckingham had
a Scotchman buried there for no other
reason than that he was his friend. On
the same day a lot Of people got to-
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BURIAL PLACE OF ENGLAND's FAMOUS DEAD

and Sir William Davenant, despite his
plagiarized epitaph, 20 rare Sir Will
liam Davenant." 1t is a strange as
semblage of the dead that mingles in
this part of the abbey. In it are found
diviness philosophers, essayists, drama
lists, actors, antiquarians, critics.
architects, philanthropists, ETC., most of
them long forgotten. And among those
who have left an enduring mark on
English literature incongruity still
characterizes their commemoration.
Thackeray, who was buried at Kensal
Green, has bust here, while his great
rival, Dickens, is buried close by with
no monument save his gravestone.
Samuel Johnson is buried here, but his
monument is in St. PauI'S Cathedral
Others occupy conspicuous places who
have no earthly claim to them. What,
for instance, could be more inappro-
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the time comes, as il must, when they
will have to begin removing bones from
the abbey to make room for those who
are really deserving of interment
there. honest John Broughtons should
not. be the first TO be disturbed.
Prizefighters are often popular idols.
but it would be difficult to conceive of
any occupation more remote from the
paths that lead to glory than that OF
plumber. Yet in the holy quiet of one
Of the cloisters of this temple of fame
a plumber is buried-one Philip Clarke
for no other reason than that he
fixed the pipes and soldered up leaks
for Westminster School, an appendage
Of the abbey. But no memorial will be
found in the abbey of that solder arti-
ficer whom the world can. never forget,
the immortal tinker John Bunyan.
MNGLE WITH THE GREAT.
Because he chanced to be employed
as a butler in Westminster School
Thomas Warren was inferred one of
the cloisters in 1899. BY marrying a
Page Of the Back Stairs" and as Mis-
tress Starcher," experimenting Queen
Anne's washing, Elizabeth Abrahal
gained a similar posthumous honor.
For looking after Queen Anne's hens
and chickens David Davis, First
Groom of Her Majesty's Poultry
Office" was buried, in this ground
consecrated to the great, with several
members of his family, including a six
year-old son. Nor did the little fellow
lack company there. Many children
are buried in the abbey and none of
them was a prodigy.
The first child to be buried there, the
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KING WILL READ A PAPER
AT AMERICANIST CONGRESS
Gathering to Be Held Next August as
Stuttgart VIII Be Attended by
Scholars From Many Lands

Gathering to Be Held Next August as
Stuttgart VIII Be Attended by
Scholars From Many Lands
BERLIN, July 23.-The International
Americanist Congress will be held in
Stuttgart from August IS to August %.
King William Of Wurttemberg, who has
consented to be a patron, is taking the
greatest interest in the coming proceed
ings. American, German, English.
French, Italian and Spanish scholars
who are experts on the subjects to be
discussed have promised to take part
The subjects will be:
"The Native Tribes OF America, Their
History, Geographical Distribution.
Language, Physical Characteristics.
Culture, Mythology and Religious Gus
toms"
"The Ancient Monuments and An
tiquities of America"
'The History Of the Discovery and
the Colonization Of the Continent"
The King will read a paper on sew
eraI interesting but unpublished docu-
ments bearing on American early his
tory recently discovered among the
royal archives at Stuttgart.
The Spanish Government viii lay be-
fore the congress numerous highly i'm
portant state documents throwing light
on Columbus and the history OF his
contemporary adventures in the
American hemisphere.
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pirate than a tablet, above Chaucer's
tomb, to John Roberts. 'the very faith
full secretary of the Honorable William
Pelham" a Minister who held office
under George II? And when such men
as Byron, Keats and Shelley still re-
main unrecognized in the abbey why
should room any longer be given 10
Thomas Chafinch and John Osbaldis-
ton, Pages of the Bedchamber' TO
Charles II?
SOME ROGUES REST THERE
If only the great and heroic were
commemorated in this place that with
more of poetry than truth has oeen
called the silent meeting place OF the
great dead of eight centuries there
would be room for the memorials OF all
whose names are inscribed high on the
rolls of England's fame. In the pap
tistry is a monument TO James Craggs,
who was Secretary Of State when he
died in 1920, only 80 years old Pope
composed the epitaph which commem-
crates his virtues.
Statesman yet friend to truth, Of soul sincere.
In action faithful and in honor clear!
Who broke no promise, served no private enos
Who gained no title and who lost friend;
EnnobIed by himself. by all approved.
Praised wept and honored by the muse ne
loved.
Yet when the South Sea bubble burst
and its books were overhauled this
same Craggs lin honor clear" was dis
covered TO be an arrant rogue, his
name appearing in the subscription
lists for the fictitious sum of 1850, 600,
the price of his influence" Pope had
no desire to be buried in the abbey
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made in his epitaph hat his name
that cannot fade shall be an everlast-
ing monument"
OTHER TENANTS OF CORNER.
Under the medallion of John Gay,
who has long faded from remembrance,
appear his own cynical lines
Life is jest and all things show it:
1 thought SO once and now know it -
And they seem not altogether inap-
propriate in view of his own presence
in such a place and the strangely
mixed company gathered about him as
fitting representatives of England's s
greatness.
Among other tenants of the poets
corner who have shared oblivion with
MIN may be mentioned John Phillips,
Abraham Cowley, William Mason,
Matthew Prior. Christopher Anstey
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gether and buried a dog in Tothill
Fields as a protest against the abbey
funeral But the Dukes friend still re-
tains his six feet of ground there.
1t is the Poets Corner" that visit
ors, and especially American visitors,
approach with the greatest reverence
and there they linger longest. But no
other part of the abbey. affords a more
striking illustration of it's incongru-
ities-of the lackof any principle of Sc
lection by which the most deserving Of
remembrance were admitted and those
who had no claim to enduring fame
were kept out.
ADDISON'S COMPLAINT.
Addison long ago complained that
here were poets who had no monu-
ments and monuments which had no
poets" Those whose works are gener-
ally forgotten are better represented in
the Poets Corner" than those whose
writings are still cherished. No me-
MORALS exist there of Byron, Keats.
Shelley, Moore, Walter Savage Landor.
Sir Philip Sidney, Marlowe. Lovelace.
Herrick. Allan Ramsay. Chatterton.
Massinger and several others deserv
edly far better known than many of
those on whom monuments and fulsome
epitaphs have been bestowed.
Although Thomas ShadweIl, poet
laureate in the reign of William III.
according to Hallam "endeavored TO
MAKE the stage as grossly immoral as
his talents admitted" he has a monu-
meut in this hallowed shrine of tbe
muses. A student might pass a pretty
stiff examination in English literature
and yet have read nothing written bv
Nicholas Rowe, the poet laureate of
George 1, and, according to his epitaph
composed by Pope, next to Shakespeare
skilled to draw the tender tear" On
his monument in the Poets Corner
his widow is depicted as wiping the
tender tear" from one eye and gazing
at his bust out of the other. For all
that she married again soon after he
was buried. Michael Drayton, whose
bust occupies a niche in this sacred
spot, is now numbered among the for
gotten poets, despite the prediction
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ROYAL Women PIavwrights.

BERLIN, July 23.-Royal Princesses
have been distinguishing themselves
recently as dramatic authors and ac-
tresses.
Princess LArnulf Of Bavaria wrote a
pIav entitled Funny Men," which has
been acted before the Bavarian court
with great success. the Princess taking
one Of the leading parts
The Crown Princess Of ROumania Is
the author Of a play called The Vis-
ion of a Princess" a fantastic sketch
founded on a ROumanian folk tale and
the chief part was played by Princess
Marie herself at a grand entertainment
given at her CASTLE
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AN IMMORTAL BLACKGUARD.


acter of many Of ne company there,
and what epitaphs were worth.
AN IMMORTAL BLACKBOARD.
So far worsc than Craggs was
Thomas mn, a blackguard whose
memorial stands near sNat of the saint
Iy Wesleys, the founders Of Methodism,
that a dean refused to be responsible
for the striking discrepancy between
historic fact and Toetic fiction dis
Mayed in his euitanh and ordered it
erased, while allowing his monument
to remain. Thynn vas a favorite Of
Charles II. He was a rich man. but
to add to h-s wealth compelled the
child widow Of Lord Ogle, heiress' to
the vast Northumberland estates OF
the Percies, to marry him. She was
only l.. and fed to Holland to escape
him, whereupon he instituted law pro-
ceedings to get possession of her prop
erty.
One Of her suitors, Count John
Konigsmark, Swedish nobleman,
sent him a challenge by Captain Vratz
one of his followers. Thynn responded
by dispatching six men to France to
murder the pair Of them. Their mis-
sion failed. Then the Count tried the
game of murder with more success. As
Thynn was riding down Pail Mall one
Sunday evening his coach was stopped
by Captain Vratz and two hired vii
lians and Thynn's career was ter
minated by a blunderbuss. A bas
relief on the monument depicts the
murder. and incidentally justifies the
boast subsequently made by Thynn's
coachman that he. too. had his efagy
in the abbey.
NO PAINTER IN THE ABBEY.
It is a singular fact that no painter
is inferred in the abbey, for no other
reason apparently than that successive
deans had no appreciation of that form
of art. And it is one of the many
strange illustrations of the irony of
fate found in the abbey that the only
painter who has mOnumsr there is
the same Sir Godfrey KneIler who so
emphatically expressed his aversion to
being entombed within it's walls be-
cause they do bury fools there" Sir
Godfrey himself designed the monu-
ment. for which he left $500, and chose
a place for it in Twickenham Church,
but the spot selected was already occu-
pied by Pope's tablet to his father, and
as the poet refused to give way to the
painter, the painters monument was
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himself He knew very well the char
acter of many Of ne company there,
and what epitaphs were worth.
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DR.. and Mrs. o. c. Hankison left
last night for GAINESVILLE and Newark
Ohio. They will visit the great lakes
and on their way home see the world s
fair.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-10
When Royalty Hunts.

When royalty goes hunting every
precaution is taken to maintain COM
plete privacy. Experienced foresters
and huntsmen alone are permitted to
penetrate into the vast coverts. Nc
unauthorized visitor can hope to ven
ture unchallenged far beyond the out
skirts OF the preserves at any season.
King Edwards achievements in the
forest and at the cover-side are we'll
known. He has helped these many
years to depopulate the coverts If all
the best shooting estates in Great
Britain, and has shown himself inter,
ested in the rearing of the pheasGnts
ON his own place in Sandrins sham.
Grouse. red deer and roebuck lind
him equally skilled. and he probably
owes his robust health in some meas
are to his delight in open-air 81 orts.
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Chambers Of Commerce.

Foreign chambers Of commerce are
Of Austro-Hungarian origin, for In
1870 the first Austro-r hungarian Cham
Der of Commerce was opened in Con.
stan tinople; afterward similar institu-
tons We're opened in Alexandria.
Paris and London. In the spring of
1908 an Austro Hungarian Chamber vt
Commerce was opened in Melbourne.
The English, adopting the example
Of the Austrians, founded q Chamber
OF Commerce in Paris The Austrans
have been far surpassed in number
OF these institutions by the English,
who now have thirty in foreign coun-
tries and 100 in their own colonies
The United States has Chambers Ct
Commerce in laris. Brussels, Lon
don, Berlin, Sydney and Shanghai.
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YlIlA 0I YlSN.

Il had az illustration the other day
of how relative term 'Rube' is" said
a commercial traveller at the Grand
onion Hotel the other evening.
Il was in a very rural village up
State, and there was & 1unch of farm.
ers about the village store that would
have satisfied your comic artists con.
ceptions of that typical son of the soil
whom they caricature as 'Rube.'
They were talking of their crops
when a farmer drove in from a remote
part of the township To my unprac-
ticed eye there was little more of the
country gawk about him than there
was in the specimens lounging in
front OF the store, but lank farmer
with chin Whiskers and a straw in his
mouth exclaimed:
Look thar at that Rube.'
Amt he countryfied?' assented the
man on the next barrel, planting his
elbows Oh his knees.
Wonder he amt skeered o. com.
in taW town said third, switching
at his rayhide boots. New York
Times
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Mr.. NJ. p Gleason has resigned
his position at the Mills drug store
and leaves tonight for a ten days
visit to the worlds fair. From st.
Louis Mr.. Gleason will go to his Old
home at Essex, Iowa
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-10

Mrs. Ralph Silyerstein of Shreve-
port. La, who has been the guest OF
Mr.. Isaac Dreyfus and family for
several months, returns TO her home
today.
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Sign Was Too Much.

William l.. Radcliffe tells Of a pro-
prietor OF small shoe store in an en-.
terprising district who complained Of
the falling of in the sales of shoes at
his store. Having been good Gus.
toner with a first-class trade. Rad.
cli1e decided to investigate the mat
ter. and on journeying to the store.
the first thing that greeted his eve
was a sign reading:
Ladies wishing cheap shoes will
be supplied here"
The sign was fixed so as to read
properly and trade soon became good
again.-Bnston Glc.a
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In FULL ACCORD
JOHN BULL AND UNCLE SAM HAD
PREVIOUS UNDERSTAND
ING.
Neutral Commerce Will Be Protected
and Both Will Insist on Right
Construction of Law.

London, Aug. 10.-The Associated
Press learns that absolute accord ex-
lists between the United States and
Great Britain in respect to the rights
OF neutral commerce, and when the
declaration by SECRETARY Hay was
published yesterday the state depart
i, ment was informed that it was in
| entire accord with the attitude OF
Great Britain.
In order that Russia might under
stand the similarity of British and
American views. Lord Lansdowne di-
rected the British ambassador at ST.
Petersburg to protest against the Rus
sian definition of contraband along
the same lines as the declaration
transmitted through Ambassador Nc
Cormick. Great Britain would like
the United States to take steps to OBJ
tain an international declaration de-
fining the rights of neutrals, but it
is not thought at the foreign office
here that Secretary Hay will do so. it
being understood there that he pro-
poses to retain complete liberty of
action
For all practical purposes complete
accord exists between the two gov
ernments by communication, especial
l. on the part of Great Britain to
the United States as actioned by their
respective governments in specific in
cidents.
With reference to the constitution,
the special admiralty prize court at
the Russian capital to reconsider the
er, which was announced in the A.
sociated Press dispatches from 81,
Petersburg last night. the British Of
fcials are confident that it VII re-
verse the decision of the pie court
al Nladivostok. They maintained
the decision declaring the steamer to
be a lawful prize was not justified
by the International law and that
whatever the vessel carried Admiral
Jesse had no right to sink her. Great
Britain will not accept a settlement
merely by the payment of money in
dt mnity, but insists that a broad prin-
ciple shall be established. This Rus
sia cannot admit at this moment in
view of the finding of the Vladivostoll
court. but if the new court declares
as the British government anticipates,
that international law did not justify
the sinking of the neutral ship, the
question will be capable of easier ad
justment. The foreign Office here de-
MES that there should be any refer
ence of the Knight Commander ques-
tion to The Hague arbitration court
and says the matter is one for direct
negotiations between the two govern
ments. and in view of the earnest de-
sire of both TO reach a peaceful agree
ment it is believed satisfactory set.
tlement can be achieved.
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Pyrotechnic Birds.

In Nagasaki (Japan) there is fire
works maker who manufactures pyro.
technic birds of great size that, when
exploded, sail in a lifc-like manner
through the air and perform many
movements exactly like those of liv
ing birds. The secret q making these
wonderful things has been in the pos
sa.s sion of the eldest child of the fam
Sly each generation for nvore than 400
gears.
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Ori1i, of Clearinqhouses.

Not all bankers are aware of tho
2nanner in which the clearinghouse
system originated. The messengers of
che London banking houses used to
meet at a certain alehouse. and there
make exchanges of paper Their en-
Dloyers observed this aud held meet
sng 20 discuss the matter. This meet
5ng resulted in the founding OF the
London clearinghouse in 1875.