The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-05
!: Over the Nuts and Wine !:
BY FRANCES coURTENAY BAYLOR
l,hc llins,s FuntrnI.

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Is impressive Though these are neces-
sary and appropriate under every rule
of every country when It's ruler. nomi-
nal or real dies. from an Ashantee
chief to European EMPEROR; 1t Is
the maiest yof death. 1t Is terrible
light "thnt beats upon q THRONE one
is sure that for a. gentle lovely wo-
man. like Queen Alexandra, and a de-
voted wife. nothing could be more
painful than the lying In state, the re.
| pea ted, tedious. formal ceremonies. the
publicity, the muitled drums and Grape
draped royal standard the miles Of
mourners" reported in dispatches from
| London. she cannot claim the prifl-
In her empire. and lay her own dead
quietly, simply. sacredly TO rest. ac-
companied only by those who loved
him. Thackeray was In Paris when
place, and his remains were deposited
at the Invaldcs. with all France fol-
| lowing them in a tremendous national
s oa of 0xe an p ws
| He knows what it is to be great now
Millions of men had persisted setting
that pinch Of dust on the throne Of
defense of it, and in dragging "the
Corsican upstart', down from It, And
this was the end OF 1t ALA pinch of
DUST. an imposing bier, a few tattered
a curious, excited mob q tomb A
crucifix borne by a priest of the reliE
ion he had re-established in one of the
cradles of Embellishments
loving pride of his nation the France
he had himself truly loved--these
alone remained of Napoleon the Great.
Napoleon the Conaueror. In one of his
scribed an episode that made such
a deep impression upon him as
Young man-.rich- titled, courted. fiat>
tered-that he was ever afterward the
poor mans devoted friend. He was
standing at the gate one cold day at
Oxford. looking out idly at the pass
ers,by, when rough cart passed by
with rude pine coffin in 1t. covered
shivering widowsfollowed it on foot
holding by each hand q little child.
She was dressed in deep mourning;
her her head was bent upon her breast;
We're gently. patiently wiped away.
Lord Shaftesbury lifted his hat and
gazed after them. Then and there"
he says. II vowed before God that 1
would befriend the. poor as long as
! lived. SO inexpressibly touched was
by what l had witnessed" How he
Kept that vow is Sattested by the 5000
conf ortable homes that he built for
them in London alone. not to mention
a thousand other helping hands that
he held out to them from the time he
came Of age, TO the day of his death.
Coal clubs. blanket clubs, funeral ex-
lying-in hospitals. hard pinch loans,
sick benefits poured from his generous
heart In a crystal stream of unselfish
love as long as 1T beat. And all be-
cause he was not one of those who
having eyes, see not" 1t is said.
too. that he owed his religious educa-
ton almost entirely to a devoted old
nurse. Tolstoi had a similar expert
ence as a young nobleman. when. with
party of friends. he drove UP to a
certain palace in Moscow, swathed in
sables and bubbltng over with fun and
excitement, Ell route to ball. For
there in the street before him was
poor old man frozen stiff and stark
and starved before him as he stood
on the threshold of life, youth. rank
and wealth. From that moment he be-
eame-Tolstoi And was not Mozart
followed to his pauper's grave by one
faithful friend. and his ,dog-tvvo faith
ful friends? Bury me where die"
said ST. Monica to her son, ST. Au-
gustine. God win not forget where
The King OF Tcrrors.
1t is we who stupidity regard the
kindest angel of them ALL How
beautifully Holy Scripture speaks OF
him: Whose countenance Is like light.
ming and whose salutation is .Peace."
Ihe Talmud says: Death Is like sleep.
only sixty times swceter." There Is
something superb In the Oriental point
of view in these matters-their scorp
of death. their fatalism with its roo,
Of faith in Allah the Merciful, Allah
me ne Invariable. Allah the, Ever-Kind.
ship God when they spread out their
prayer rugs and look toward Mecca.
prostrate grain of dust before the AL
might II Z, and a, recite this li,any.
lehem is the Mecca of all religions
should have more OF their sturdy cour-
age about NATURES last eclipse
The "Comic."
The Philistines who have been so
amused by the Overwhelming terror Of
the negroes all over the South over
Halley's comet need good scare them
selves badly. To laugh at any real
SUFFERING sur ring Is shameful and they have
TRUTH truth about which there could
be no certainty for anybody-and fear
Is an awful master. Poor souls. let
kinder to them in it than their fellow
men, just, as foolish in many of their
fears of bacilli infection, disease and
what not, and that they viii soon be
pertecny reassured. cease to fear and
"Iaborare est orare" does not find as
much weight in their religion as yet
as AS 1t ought TO-, SIX books and count,
newspapers have been devoted to tho tho
comet first and last. and even the ex-
perts can tell US mighty little about
" Protesor Percival Lowell calls 1t
the nearest approach to nothingness
set In a void" Professor Pickering, of
Harvard. says that 'its head consists
OF swarm of meteorites" Professor
See Cwho ought to be an authority IL
there Is anything in name) says that
ITS tail is made up OF gaseous mat.
ter. such as hydrogen, cyanogen and
other hydrocarbon compounds, and OBJ
servers on rare occasions have sus-
pected traces Of vapors OF iron in the
case OF comets that have passed very
near the sun" The meteorites are said
to wary In size from paving stone to
bodies several miles in diameter"
Waldemar Kaempffert declares that its
oo2e OF poisonous gas makes tho thin
dense blanket. Monsieur Tlarnmarion
has vowed that we could not escapc
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