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STATE OF IOWA,
HOWARD COUNTY.
In the District Court of Howard County, State
of Iowa.
By virtue OF a special execution issued from
the office of the Clerk OF the District Court of
Howard county, State of Iowa. in favor OF
james a Smith and against the premises de-
scribed below, dated October II, 1905, and to me
directed, commanding me that of the
goods, chattels, stock or interest In any company,
debts due, property In the hands OF third per-
sons, lands and tenements (Which are not ex-
empt by law from execution) of the said
premises, I make or cause to be made the
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~ty-seven $500 dollars attorney fees,
with interest and COSTS have levied up
on the following described real estate lying
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and State Of Iowa. namely:
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| above described property, or suf1icient thereof
to satisfy the above debt withtIterest and costs
Dated this 18th day OF Oct. 1905
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13w2 Sheriff OF Howard county
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always 70 be found. made ftseB merry at the ex-
pense of these impressionable ladies instead of
weeping with them
How much the Champmesle acting did for
this play may be seen from the fact that when
published it actually, by its badness, created
riot at the theatre and drove the thing from the
stage forever. If there can be comedy in tragedy
1t must have been found In the Mortified aston
ishment of the conceited Gascon dramatist, who
had fondly believed that 1t was his winged
words that had made the success Of Judith"
Sainte-Beuve has told US that while the
Champmesle and other contemporary actresses
had great and splendid parts, they never at
tanned to the all round perfection Of Adrienne
Lecouvreur- This daughter OF a poor halter was
the first French player to be received into So
ciety, and her beauty, her talent and her charm
ing manners lent rather than gained distinction
therein. She brought to the stage a delightful
naturalness discarding the artificial elocution
which ruled SO long at the Hotel de Bourgogne
and which Mile. de Champmesle brought with
her to Moliere's own theatre. Adrienne's ex-
quisite enunciaton due to the suggestion
of the old grammarian, Cesar du Marsais who
at first found her quite faulty as her pre-
decessors in giving proper weight to her words.
DAnainvaI relates that on the evening OF her
plause of the delighted audience. elderly man.
seated at the back of box refrained from joining
with reInarkng from time 10 time a low tone,
Bon, cellar His behavior much comment ed
to Adrienne, who learning that il was Du
Marsais. became curious to learn the reason Of the
critic of some discernment. and accordingly sent
him very courteous note, inviting him to dine
Dtl Marsais came but before sitting down to
table he begged the actress 70 do him the favour
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so conscious and SO certain OF what she can DO.
that she never, believe had the feelings on the
instant come upon her Unexpectedly; but I pro
nounce that the greatest strokes of genius have
been unknown to the actor himself till circum-
stances and the warmth of the scene have sprung
the mine, as 1t were, as much to his own sur
prise as to that of the audience Thus, 1 make
a great difference between a great genius and a
good actor" It must be admitted that most OF
the actresses who appear in this volume fail to
respond to this high tesla test, be it rernem-
bered, not imposed by the audiences of their
time and of their own race
First on the roll Of these clever women comes
Armande, the wife of Moliere-a dainty, grace
full, piquant creature. not pretty. but the most
captivating of girl comedians She was Celimene
herself. they tell US, capricious, fmperious
coGuette by nature, sometimes the delight too
often the torment of her famous husband Mr..
Williams dwells at great length on the relations
Of the pair. on their separation and its cause,
and on the anonymous scandal-mongering from
which Arnande suffered. and which was, on the
face of It. false he inclines to a gentle view OF
her, without pallatiOn- however, of the short
comings which, whatever they may, have been,
could not kill her husbands affection. For
MoHere's passion for his young wife was. we are
reminded, the serious love of his life He
had himself trained her dramatic powers. and in
the process fell deeper and deeper into love with
his fascinating pupil. Whether the lively little
being cared particularly for the preceptor SO
much older than she is perhaps doubtful but she
must at least have felt some gratitude for what
he had given her-for. as we know, nearly all
her parts-certainly all her more important
parts-were written by Moliere. with the express
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object of enabling her to display her abilities TO
the best advantage" If that sportVe ghosr
still wears for US a queenly diadem it was from
his hand she had it
While still on the stage the widowed Ar1nande
yielded her best parts to her brilliant successor
Marie de Champmesle the pupil of Racine IL
was this handsome young woman with the en-
chanting voive who created for him the paris
of Roxane, Iphigenie and Phedre Nine de
Serigne sending her daughter copy of Ba-
jazet," wrote
If I could send Champnesle with 1t you wouid
find the tragedy among the best; without ner II
loses half value Racines plays are written LOT
grows old and ceases be in love 1t viii be seen
whether or not | mistaken
The Champmesle chung to the stage TO the
end of her life and her public continued will
ing captive When she was ffty-four she ap-
peared in the title part Of Judith in the Aboe
Boyer's play and the theatrte was packed with
excited crowds:
1.-The seats ON the stage says lie Sage, had 70
be given up by the men to the women, whose
handkerchiefs were spread upon their knees 70
wipe away the tears to be called forth by toucltns
passages The usual occupants OF the seats ndo
to be content with the wings. In the fourth act
there was O. which proved part1cul:rIy
moving and for that reason was called the scene
DIES Mouchoira' The pit, where the langhers are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-22
MIMIC HEROINES.
Brilliant and Beautiful Figures on
the French Stage.

QUEENS OF THE FRENCH STAGE By H Noel
Williams. syo. PIP. S65. Charles Scribners Sons
Mr.. Williams has treated his spectacular sub
tect carefully. with a praiseworthy effort to be
Just and accurate. He provides a record OF
great talents-how much of genius there was In
those fair French mines Of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries cannot now be sure. 1t
is at least certain that the playgoers of to-day
could not be in sympathy with the taste that
long approved the unnatural mounting of classic
verse by a sham Roman heroine attired in the
paners and feathers of the regency. To more
than Of these daughters of the drama might
be applied those words which Garrick wrote to
his friend Sturtz apropos of the Clarion. and Of
what he called those instantaneous feelings,
that life blood, that keen sensibilty. that bursts
at once fsom genius and like electrical fire shoots
through the veins, marrow, bones and all, of
every spectator" Nine Clarion, he added. "ts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-22
THE PARTING.
By MICHAEL DRATTON

By MICHAEL. DRATTON-
Since there's help. come let US kiss and
part
Nay, am done you get more Of me;
And am glad yea. glad with all my heart
That thus cleanly myself can free
Shake hands for ever cancel all our VOWS.
And when meet at any time again
Be il not seen in either Of our brows
That we one iot of former love retain
Now at the last gasp OF loves latest breath.
When, his pulse failing, passion specifies
lies
When faith is kneeIing by his bed OF death,
And innocence Is closing UP his eyes.
over,
From death 10 life thou miGht'st him yet re-
cover
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@l)e GeAn'po11k 0riI'aorss
SUNDAY, OCTOBER %, 1905,

Tho lotto Jos6 Maria de Heredia, whose recent
disannearance from the scene has provoked Ter
vent expressions of regret not only In Faris Dut
throughout Europe, offered III MS career pei
feet illustration of what can be won III lliera
trre through sheer literary rectitude- lie hau
not great fund of inspiration, but through Ihe
wears of his disciplesbip with Leconte de Lisle
he fostered his instinct for technical peFfectlon
nv orduous toll, and polished every line IN the
sonnets which were the chief expression OF MS
+,ste as q craftsman working in metal polishes
some gem of design. He lost something of ire
and mower through his excess of technical appll-
cation but on the other hand he gained in pure
hearty. and we do not agree with those VINO
find tbe noems in "'Les Trophies utterly lack
inc in color and atmosphere On the contrary,
some of the classical pieces have delightful at
mosphere cool but luminous, and in the division
of the book given to LIE Moyen Age ct la Rem
aissance" there are sonnets like "Medaille,'
"I'Estoc" and the one RonSard, in which
romantic note is struck with genuine feeling.
How much of romance there was in his temper
ament in fact, was clearly shown by that capt.
tai little book LA Nome AlfereZ," in which
he brought US face to face with the heroine OF
De Quincey's famous Spanish Military Nun"
he had in short, much beneath his technique
Yet we like best to think of him as holding fast
of French workmanship. His art was noble
example and though he could not stem the tide
of poetic decadence that rose around him he I'M
questionably kept many of the younger men in
the right path
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-22
IN THE JUNGLE.

IN THE JUNGLE.
BY LAURENCE HOPE
Deem IN the jungle vast and dim
THAT knew not white mans feet,
s,,nI+ Tho o3or of sun-warmed fur,
Musty, savage and sweet.
Scent Of fur and color of blood
And the long-dead instincts rose,
7 followed the lure of my seasons mate
And flew, bate-fanged, at my Toes
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QUEENS OF THE FRENCH STAGE By H Noel
Williams Svo. PIP. 365. Charles Scribners Sons
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ALBERT DURER
AND THE WORK
OF THE ARTIST

Not memerly a biography of a great
artist, but also a very entertain
ing explanation of what art is.
great things of life, is the imported
English book, Albert Durer," by t.
Surge Moore. When Moore was asked
TO do this work by his editor, Arthur
Strong. who wished IL to fill a part
of the series he was editing, Moore
demurred because of modesty as to his
attainments, but his editor assured him
that the method in which he wished
Durer's life and work treated was in
the way of an appreciation of this
great artist in relation to general ideas.
His editors confidence in Moore's abiI-
ity to do this is proved we'll founded
by the interesting manner in which he
renews our sense of indebtedness to
Durer's greatness and helps US to re-
alize the interdependence Of art with
religion, morals, happiness, the con-
quest of the universe by mans ideals,
and. in fact, all the things which make
life best worth having.
AS the chief thought to develop in
this appreciation the author seizes
upon Durer's idea of proportion" to
which that artist gave such predom-
inant place. This is the main gen
eral idea" TO which he links Durer's
art, and it was the great German en-
graver's method of determining the
value Of things.
What we are TO understand by the
term proportion" as used in this ap-
length, and is one of the best parts
of the book. So far as it can be stated
briefly it is to this effect: The author
conceives of human reason as the an
tagonist of all other forces that we
know, ana that our hope and desire is
to master and transform the universe.
This idea of Moore's will remind us of
Huxley's view that with the dawning
of the combined intelligence and moral
sense in man a new cosmic power came
into being different from and very an
tagonistic to all those forces which
Darwin had so well demonstrated as
the fxers of the course of evolution till
mans ideals became a cosmic coun-
ter to what was evil in their reign.
Now, as Moore states it, "All things
impress the mind with two contradic-
tory notions-their actual condition and
their perfection. Even the worst of Its
kind fmpresses on US an idea of what
the best would be. Reason then seizes
on this aspect of things which suggests
their perfection and awards them her
attention in proportion as such aspect
makes their perfection seem near. or
as it may further her in Transforming
the most pressing of other eviIA
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DISAPPOINTMENT
IN NEW VOLUME,
BY DR.. MITCHELL

Constance Trescot," by Doctor s.
Weir Mitchell. while a fairly good
story. will certainly produce much
OF the disappointment which is
the natural reaction caused by COM
ing Of an overheralded good thing To
read il after having expectation reused
with the announcement that IL Is one
Of the best novels written in the New
World Is TO lose much OF the pleasure
the work might have given. but for the
falling down from the height OF the
anticipation caused BY that over
praise.
Besides the internal interest OF the
book. there are the exterior ones TO
pique our curiosity to read il IN the
facts OF its having been written by DIR.
Mitchell in his seventy fifth year. that
10 his own judgment IT is the best
novel he has produced; that it is found
ed on a fact which came under his
personal observation; and that he
wrote ii three times in three eonsecu-
tive wears in order to perfect IL. and
every page OF il has been corrected
and recorrected before IL hnallv went
to press All this slow elaboration was
done BY an author who usually writes
so facilely that he finished one OF his
best novels. Hugh Wynne." in six
weeks That speedy execution OF de-
sign, however. Is TO be considered with
the qualifying explanation that the
author was thinking OF the story for
seven years before he sat down to
write it. A further interesting item 10
that this latest painstaking literary
work was done by an author who Is q
physician still in active practice
The character study Is OF woman
who fitted well her name OF Constance
In two ways; in a Juliet-hke intensity
of love for her husband. and in ven
detta constancy OF hate for the man
, who killed him The chapter which de-
scribes this killing OF Trescot by the
detestable character. Greyhurst. is the
strongest in the book. and seems In
some measure to justify the strenuous
ness OF the literary effort
(The Century Company, New York.
81 5O)
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bered, in what seems to be the spa
cious guest chamber of an inn. The
Lord and his disciples are gathered
round the last sacred meal of the Old
Covenant. and the first of the New
The young Christ has
risen: he holds the bread in his lifted
hands and is about TO give it to
the beloved disciple, while Peter be-
yond, rising from his seat in his eager
ness. presses forward to claim ,his own
part in the Lords body.
The action of the Christ has in it
the very ecstacy of giving; the bend
ing form, indeed, is love itself. yearn-
ing and triumphant. This is further
expressed in the light which streams
from the head of the Lord. playing
upon the long line of faces. illuminat-
ing the vehement gesture of Peter, the
adoring and radiant silence of St
John-and striking even to the farthest
corners of the room, upon a woman, a
child. playing dog. The smoke
wreaths change under the gazer's eye
into lowering angels, while
the lamplight. interpenetrated by the
glory which issues from the Lord,
searches every face and fold and sur
face Everywhere the double ray. the
two-fold magic, STEPPED in these
'majesties of light the immortal scene
lives upon the quiet wall. Year after
year the slender. thought-worn Christ
raises his hand in blessing; the disci-
pies strain toward him; the angels is
sue from the darkness. And among
those who come TO look there are. from
time 10 time, men and women who
draw from il that restlessness Of vague
emotion which Kitty felt as she hung
now. gazing, on Ashes arm
For there is in it an appeal which
torments them-Iike the winding of a
mystic horn. on purple heights, by
some approaching and unseen messen-
ger. Ineffable beauty offering itself
and in the human soul the eternal hu-
man discord: what else makes the
poignancy of art-the passion of poe
try
CHarper & Bros. New York. 1905;
81 50).
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The sense of proportion then is that
fineness of susceptibility by which we
appreciate in a given object, person,
force or mood serviceableness in re-
gard to reasons work Now as to this
fineness of susceptibility which he men,
tions. it is thing TO which art spe-
cially appeals. The value of a work
of art depends on its having come as a
real and intimate experience TO a.
large number of gifted men, When
we judge as TO the power of works Of
art to make such appeal we must be
governed by this sense of proportion
which measures how things stand in
regard to reason in help of mans chief
demand, the demand for a nobler
life" In Durer's idea of this sense of
proportion, and the right way of find
ing the valuation of things, he felt the
sovereignty OF the aesthetic conscience.
So he estimated the success of work
of arts appeal in regard to its adj
vancement of a more complete and har-
monious life This idea has connection
with the thought of the great French
writer, Flaubert, when he said Genius
is not rare nowadays, but conscience is
W nat AOOOQl Las o4iN NhcS OiiG cAiOAib
strive after"
Perhaps the most vivid way in which
one could briefly make clear what
Moore means BY this general idea of
proportion and Durer's and other
great artists uses of 1t is to call back
to memory Omar Khayyam's poetry:
Oh Love. could thou and / with Fate con-
spire.
Would We not shatter IL TO bits. and then
Remold II nearer 10 the hearts desire?
Then think how futile. though beau
tiful. was the old Persian's wish to
him, and still is to many souls to-day.
Now for the artist to master this
Durer idea of proportion, and use it in
his work; and for the great discerning
public to appreciate it. grasp it, put the
work by means of it ever to realize
these ideals, means that this new cos
mic force of the human ideal will
tend continually toward the shatter-
ing of all that is sorry in the present
Scheme of Things, and ever, ever more,
renold it nearer to the Hearts De-
sire
The finest passage in all this appre-
citation of Durer-the one best worth
quoting, and which will last longest in
the memory, is where he describes
what is probably Durer's greatest
work. the only one in which his ardent
appreciator thinks he sustains COM
parison with the greatest Italian. the
copper engraving called "Melancholia.'
Comparing his other works with this
he says: They have not been fused
in the rapture of some unique mood,
not focused by the intensity of an
emotion With the Melancholy all is
different: perhaps nong a. his works
only Durer's most haunting portrait of
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himself has an equal or even similar
power to bind US in its SPELL
1t will be remembered that. the
great engraving pictures a woman.
winged and wreathed. seated despon-
dent holding a pair of compasses in
her lap. her troubled face leaning on
her hand, her brows knit in deep
thought, and her eyes staring into
space Around her feet lie scattered
the implements of many industries.
Above her. on the WALL hang an hour
glass, a bell and a pair of scales;
leaning ladder leads up to an indefinite
somewhere. A child plays on top of
a newly finished milestone by her side.
Here are some extracts of our authors
Interpretation of this masterpiece:
That face holds our attention as not
even the Sibylla Delphica can-not by
beauty. not by conscious inspiration
but by the spell of unanswerable
thought, by the power to brood. by the
patience that can and dare go unre-
solved for many years. Everything is
begun about her: she cannot see unto
the end; she is powerful. she Is cap
able in many works. she has borne
children, she rests from her labors,
and her thought wanders. sleeps or
dreams. there she sits. alb
sorbed. unsatisfied. Impetuosity and
the frank avowal of intention are
themselves an expression of the will to
create that which is desirable; they
can but form the habit of every artist
under happy circumstances .
But the circumstances of the artist
never are happy; even Michael An
gelo's were not. An intense brooding
melancholy arises from the repressed
and baff1ed desire to create; and in
some measure this gloom of failure.
underlying their success, is necessary
character of all lovely and spiritual
creations in this world"
Durer was an artist of extraordin-
ary personal beauty, and was fond OF
making pictures of himself One of
his masterpieces is spoken of as that
most haunting portrait of himself -
Those appreciators of the man and his
art who feel the force of this portrait
haunting their memories may add to
it the memory that it was he wins
taught, in his great idea of proportion
in art, that the right use of great gifts
of genius was to remold this sorry
scheme of things some nearer to the
Hearts Desire; that another of his
great IDEAS was the need of docility to
the master in any art: and that he be-
lieved there was no discipline in do
cility equal to training in the difficult
task of learning religion.