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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-09-25
SOCIAL AND PERSONA!
interesting News Notes About Peo'
Die of alexandria Happenings
in Society.
Miss Fife Y. CIapdore left for New
York and Boston this morning.

Miss Elsie Wood has returned to her
home in Fredericksburg from four
weeks visit to relatives and friends
in Washington and Alexandria.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-09-25

Mr.. Lewis H. Fawcett left on Sun
day for Pittsburg, after spending sew
eral weeks as the guest Of his mother,
Mrs. Edward S. Fawcett, in Prince
street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-09-25

Robert &. Craddock, Of Rdtlnoke,
Va. and Miss Minnie Elizabeth Wells,
Of this city, were married last night
by Rev. l.. F. Kelly, at st. Mary 5
Church.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-09-25

Miss Constance Boush and Miss
Collins Jones returned TO this city
Monday from Orkney Springs
where Miss Bouch had q cottage 10!
the summer months.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-09-25

Mrs. A. L. Wetherspoon and two
children, OF Durham, n. G., are the
guests OF Mrs. Weatherspoon's father,
Mr.. f. Il. Remington, in west Duke
street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-09-25

When a man gets full ne Is apt Il
use a lot of empty words.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-09-25

s,ommrH ,r poiJ sLslsiO HIoJIoN
Cafe.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-09-25

Norfnlk Oysters fried IT Rammefs
Cafe.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-09-25
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4 star by any oiAcT -'.-.' NJ, -bo,.
probably want to Del the -
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-09-25
rcuid Buy All Utilities.

It may readily be seen that II this
charter should become effective in tie
District of Columbia because the Viz
ginia corporation is to all intents and
purposes a Washington concern, tie
holding corporation could purchase
hold, and operate any or all OF the pub
lie utilities of the city as well as lis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10

ing close family relations behind him.
He also keeps silence about any recent
religious, critical or political cOntrCver-
sizes into which he has been drawn with
men still living The doughty warrior
has retired from the field, full of honors
as Of years. He now desires only peace.
Still, the old fighting spirit flashes
in these pages devoted TO an already his
toric past. Al Mr.. Harrison's cam
paigns are remembered, all his services
retold yet with the stamp
Of the man, Of his forceful individuality,
strong upon them His services 10 labor,
to radical politics, 10 progress, his carr
palgns against militarism. the activities
OF his pen as teacher. critic. historian
and jurist are recoupted here. with many
a specimen OF the aggressive quality OF
his writing. He quotes literally also
from private correspondence hitherto
unpublished, and this, in its headlons
is far from the least interest
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10

arettes. men; unable to move without
traading on one or other OF them tears
rolling down our cheeks from the FUMES ot
the fire, thankful we cannot see WHAT az
We are sitting IN OF WHAT "'lt w ''
We roll our rugs round rs and lie on
the godden earth floor. Hassan turns t w.
mon ont and stretches himself across the
doorway. Dogs moan, men shOTe' ou'''"0
the storm RACES unceaslhSl!'
,rbcre were more dscomfCrts in the
course of the expedition, but the weather
was not always bad, and the resuui
nights in their own tent made up Tor
tho vretchcd ones in the filthy inns
They we're in serious danger twice-once
when their raft was nearly held up py
robbers. who weres finally scared away
by the information that the travellers
were great English people who woulh
he avenged by the English Padisha;
and once when they unwittingly APP
preached a mosque containing Pc
cuIjarlv sacred tomb. on the latter oc-
casion they were in very grave danger
indeed from an angry crowd of fanatics
and narrowly escaped death. The most
interesting part Of the book. perhaps, Is
that describing their Journey on the
Tigris though the reader who enjoys IT
may not he disposed 10 emulate the en-
ergy If the two women. Barring dirt
they had nothing 10 complain Of i'm the
conduct OF the guards and attendants
who protected and served them
Whether Turk. Armenian, Arab or
Eurd. thev forgot their racial or re
lcioss enmtios and lived in harmony
with each other and with the Western
irfdols 10 whose welfare they were tenn
vorarlv devoted Miss Jehbs animated
narrative will 60 far 10 persuade other
travel lovers 10 ignore the hardships
end dangers To be met in that part Of
the globe and 10 realize its charms for
themselves.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10

ing part Of the revelation Of his deepest
convictions thrown off at white neal
Italy. the France OF the Empire ana the
Repub,ic. England's foreign policies ana
wars, from the Crimean TO the South
African struggle. and her position IN
Ecyut: the great events Of home politics
and their leaders. scientists, men-of-let-
ters and artists are passed in review
with many a trenchant characterization
and judgment Thus he says If Charles
Stewart PARCEL that
Personally he Vas tho most eloquent and
oistirgilishCd feature amongst al! the puhl'
men If his time. But %" loii on III" l'S
impression OF sort Of supcrhumaI ana
satanic pride and thirst fog personal we, We,
tory. He studied little, and cared nothing
10 improve, the condition of the irish pco11
pie 70 him II was matter OF persona
honor. pride. oT revenge, 20 HillE LIE 49, -,
and It's government 10 tholf kh''S, ;'h,' -,
rrovo what a deadly enemy an |lSihdn
~ Tlantagcret race could hc. never
failed 20 do justice to the "Htraol"lhaiS
novcr and mastery will of the irish I,au-
o. ParuoU had nothing Irish about MN
ovcent his race hatred and his beauty. re
VAS intensely FuGlish-or rather the pure
Norman aristoCrat But ne ru!neu "
cause by his selfish passion ana lhsoIeh'
pride.
MIR. Harrison draws a comparison nc
tween Bismarck. Cayour and Gamhet'a;
admits the consummate political genus
Of the Italian. recognizes the width and
depth or the impression made by the
German on the politics Of Europe but
holds that the Frcnchman, while the
equal Of both in saGacity, was less
tainted than either with INSCRIPTIONS
end to~tuous devices.
George Henry Lewis. the early cham
p!on Of Comtc in England. is affection
atcIy remembered, hut Huxley. the op-
roncnt of Poeitivism. the inventor of the
phrase catholicism without Christi
anity" to describe IT, fares no less we'll
at Mr. Harr.son's hands. Lonsfcllow he
Grvly diamisscs with the remark that
his feature. might bc the model 10
serve for GreeE Philosopher but his
poetry. | thought. might serve for "A
ladv's album" pieracl he found rs
taciturn as Emerson, whom he never
heard making a remark beyond mono
syllablos"; and OF Matthew Arnold as a
poet he opines that his car for melody
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10
EIGHTY YEARS
"reminiscences of an English
Thinker and Worker.
AuToB1oGRAPHlc MEMOIRS BY rrcd

AUTOBIOGRAPHY MEMOIRS BY Frcd-
eric Harrison. -. G. j.. Lit. y, IL T.,
Honorable Fellow Of Wadham College,
oxford. With frOntispiecc portraits
Two volumes $40, pp. xvii. 20, 81, 8 3
The Macmillan Company.
At eighty, evidently still in full pos
session Of his brilliant intellect, his mem
DRY unclouded, Mr.. Harrison offers rs
i'm these two volumes a vivid, many
sided chronicle of the events Of his tim"
at home and abroad, and Of his share in
the fashioning Of what has practically
become a new social, political and eco
monte world OF Positiyism he says
comparatively little. since, as he OK
plains. he has written and spoken 50
much Of It elsewhere but his confession
oC faith, pronounced in his preface. 5
that. whatever the position to-day Of his
new religious Reformation he abidcs
with mistaken confidence in the sure
hope that it is destined to prevail in the
near future. The only Limit he has set
himself in these two volumes is 10 for
bear 90 speak Of any living person or
of any one quite recently dead ana leay-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10
THE RESTORATION
A Cosby Study of King Charles
the Second

THE GAY KING CHARLES IL. ms SVui'
and His Times. BY Dorothy senior
With frontspece and sixteen illustrd-
tons Svo. PIP. 362. Rrentanos
Nothing can be added to what the
world already knows of Charles H. his
court and his times, nor will the verdict
Of history upon him ever be waterway
modified. As a King he lacked dlgnlIS'
as a ruler he lacked sagacity, PATRIOTISM
and self-respect, as a man he HAD NOM
ing 70 recommend him except sardohlc
humcr. much good nature and an occa-
sionaI redemption Of his promises. With
out the regal demeanor Of his inoompe-
tent father. he was also without the ro-
nance Of the later pretenders even in
the days Of his exile His story Is chiefly
that Of his mistresses.
The author Of this COSBY. lightly
written volume but half-heartedly under
takes To offer an apology for his Charac-
ter and life Both, she holds. were
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10

lated by Alexander TeiXeira de Mattos.
l2mo. up. lo6. Dodd Mead & Co.
In this essay Maeterlinck is in reality
more concerned with life than with
death-wth life as we know IL, and with
the problem of some form Of continued
existence hereafter. The attitude
towsrd death in its narrower sense
the moment Of dissolution-which COR
the purpose of his essay he makes his
point Of departure, is that of an earlier
generation rather than our own-the
attitude of physical repulsion and
spiritual dread which Napoleon declared
TO have been the creation Of doctors
and priests" Maeterlnck holds that it
was forced on medicine by theology
However that may be- We have come TO
face the thought of the inevitable no.
ment more philosophically since then
more in the spirit Of the ancients and
the Orientals. Ciceros attitude, frankly
xpresse4-"emorui nolo, sed me esse
moftuum nihili estimo"-is that OF the
majority of us nowadays. We, too,
would put off the moment of dissolution
the physical wrench, as long as possible
but as for being dead thereafter we give
it but little thought Certain inherited
beliefs have been weakened, our image
nation refuses TO preoccupy itself WIN
them as of yore, and il finds food IN
neither modern theology or science nor
in the speculations Of metaphysicIans'
The last nifty years have worked
wondrOus change Thoreau's 'one
world ut a time. please has become the
attitude of most of us.
1t is not, perhaps for these materiaI
philosophers that this essay has been
written. vet even they may find mucn
suggestion in It. Maetcrlinck Is always
suggestive. There is, for instance MS
thesis that most of what we consider
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10
WITH THE MAILS
Tales IF the Union Army and the
Government Service.

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folk and moOnshiners, with ku-kluX
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Nestlsator oil poSta! Expectations, in the
Far West as wei.
inc DOCK brlStles with anecdotes and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10
LITERARY NEWS
d mo j.
a. CRITICISM -

the pictures, their living character. lie
looks ut the handsome Dutch soldiers
taking their ease, remembers that they
are "militlamcn" and proceeds 10 illus
trate their fundamental traits as part
and parcel OF civilization that had, AZ
bottom. nothing military about H. 1t
was The heroism of a buTsher people
that beat down the Spanish power We
all know that. to be sure. but how many
OF those who have studied the celebrated
paintings in Holland. with their pomp
of wariike banners and acCoutrements,
have grasped the full meaning Of the
point which La Fargo 50 quietly brings
out? That is his way throughout his
long and varied journey among master
pieces of mundane and sacred art. There
is grandeur in many of his subjects, bur
invariably he gets at the simple. human
emotion underlying even the most impos-
ing fabric Of design.
Always he is the critic, keen upon
values, Weighing while he praises SO
that while he enhind,es the reader he
leads him, before all else, 10 the truth.
There is no easy glamour here, of beauty
laudcd without explanation. We are
sorry that what he has TO say about
PuVis dc Chavannes. for example, IS too
long to he quoted. il is a model of dis
eliminating exposition. We would like
10 cite. too. some ct his descriptions.
These. II might seem, would not be diiii-
cult to write. Let the reader try it, Let
him take the Photograph Of some famous
old portrait and endcavor 90 translate
into words those characteristics which
tho painter has preserved. He might
take as an example Of such analysis the
following passage by La Fargo on one
Of the masterpieces Of Antonello ia Mes
sina
We remember the portrait 10y him 4 an
other unknown. the so-Called Condo'uere,
in the Louvre. and its relentless persist
cnCc % intention. Here tn parsonage. Ger
tainlg %; a less warike profession, VIII FOL
low bis end IN q more subtle hut certainly
quite "a determined a manner. The in IL
gent wItChfulness. the readiness 10. some
POSSIBLE Glance. e certain hIm'. NJ Il-
p'eaiation. and readiness also 10 smile at
what milht require it, is All marked there.
move 10 appreciate something worth not
ing or abstain from what might NOT he tie
proper thing VIII he ha a cardinal som"
DAY. or a chancellor, or is he already in
some position Of security The dre-- Is
already uch and that # q parsora-e. 80
that It IS not quite an Urpleatlnt su--os-
t!cn that W. receive from The. oi.yer ia6".
We feel that such a clear eve. looking 500
steadily. has at least a clear VISION Of what
is II might almost be that Of tine painter
himself "a sins the sitter before him
How simple il is and how viyifving
The book is packed with just such un-
ottrusive, helpful writing. writing tha;
seems somehow - heightar the reality
OF tha paintings described. The paint
ings themselves are here. too. in heauti-
fu' reprCductions They form q kind ~
gallery. through which Il Fargo ram
hIes in the role of guide and friend. He
never wrote a more inspiring or more
preotiCal book
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10
The Most Fascinating Story Since
Jules Verne
The Dominant Chord
by EDWARD KIMBALL
Net $IZ5
,RE BOOKS e. PRINTS IN EUROPE

have been a great king; he only contrived
10 he A great rake.
II Is the record Of the rake and OF the
tolerant cynic that his latest biographer
nIacss in the foreground. His record rs
q statesman, a ruler, does not. in truth
require much space. The roll of his
favorites IS called once more, and that
Of his boon companions-friends he had
none. His times" as pictured here. d.
not stray far from the court circle, the
theatre. the coffee house, except where
affairs of state are dealt with in chap
ter or two. OF course. Evelyn and Mr..
Pepys lend 10 the narrative occasionally
the inimitable quality OF their diaries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10

shaped by the humilations which he was
forced to undergo during his sojourn in
Scotland:
with tears and shame he aCceded 10 their
demands. and then. his self-rcspect gone.
he let everything else go with II. lie no
longer believed i'm himself nor could he
believe In any one else. From that
past, h. entered upon the TAT ones with two
resolves: one. that he would never again
20 on his travels; the other never TO quar-
rel with anybody. lie had no illu-
slons Stll, he admired goodncss-in others.
For himself II was too dun His is the
record of a character married lie might
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10


was too uncertain. or his leisure for con-
/ tinEous poetic achievement too ham
pcred. To- ALLOW him 10 leave us such
poems as he might have given Z" ih"
/ thoughtful world il ne he'd led a poet .
lifc"
. Mir Harri9Ona an'!-mil.tarlsm he tcIIs
us, dates from his earliest youth. II 1i-
/ ready nadr him 10 refuse an invitation
/ to wellington funeral II" champ"nod
! the cause Of Germany In lNp against
J the tyran; Napoleon. but III 1871 he save
/ his symIath. to the French people.
/ beaten down by a conqucror intent on
Gripping them for q generation 10 come.
I "Eismarckism," wherever practiscd,
whatever its label, has remained his pet
aversion.
I There - hearty appreciation in Mr..
I Harrisons iagcs "c'o;ei {" his roccP-
ton - this country in i'h" expressed
/ chiefly in letters home written at the
time. loom may be made here for Il
sample Of his dramatic criticism in the
COS o. thc la; century:
The other day. deceived hy critics ana a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10
The Late John La FARCE on
TvpeS of Great Painting.

ONE HUNDRED MAsTERPIECES ,,. OF
PAINTING BY John La Fargo WIN
Illustrations ROYAL octave, PIP. XVIII
400 Doubleday, Page & co.
This posthumous volume has, amonS
many rare qualities, one which is pc
culiarly arresting. The book is so like
La Fargo, it possesses so much of the
originality, the charm, and, above all
the penetrating wisdom Of his converse
ton. II was, indeed. his abit ia write
Very much as he talked, carrying into his
dealings with the literary medium that
sCrupulous sense of form which char
acterized his work as an artist, but re-
fusing in the one sphere as in the other
10 sacrifice ideas 10 pedantry. II" drove
always at essentials. When he talked
about paintings md when he wr"t"
about them he would not waste his time
on the side issues which so often serve
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10
MIR. Eryce's Book.

The book on South America which Mr.
James Bryce. the British Ambassador,
has lately been engaged upon is coming
from the press of the Macmillan Com
pany. It's subtitle. Observations and
Reflections" indicates its character. 1t
promises TO be an uncommonly interest
ing discussion Of the South American
republics.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10
DEATH AND SLEEP
The Moment of Dissolution and
the Mystery.

DEATH. BY Maurice MaeterIinck. Trans
lated by Alexander Ietkelsa de eo Ma''oS'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10
TWO FAIR TOURISTS
How English Women Dared Dan
ger in Asia Minor.

BY DESERT WAYS TO BAGD;ASn,,i, ,,, by
Louisa Jctb Mrs. Roland WilkinS,'
With illustrations and Map. No pp'
3lS Charles Scribners sons.
To 60 forth for TO admire ana for TO
see in unfreluented regions, roughins II
with a. much hardwood as Is shown u,
the male traveller, is a thing 10 whic'
the modern English woman Is gwen
With genuine daring she ventures
among alien peoples, and takes the risks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10
A New Novel by John Breckenridge Ellis

a New Novel By john DrecKenf1uge 1-111S
AIony with the force bdues looking Of Fans big black eyes
non. WIN u" .D a,1scs " J. W0rH
direct fairly matches Fnns bold spirit and lend added
OF human PhhH No. HTf6aN
g w. ,.J ,.y.y.r novels Pill Inquirer
book achieve degree OF
Chicago Journal
COhPhNr
t,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10

4 riINl-TNUQUA BOY N 81 And AZ
TERWARD "reminiscences tv David
q Parker Edited hy Torranc" Parker.
Introduction b. Albert Rnshrcll Hart.
Ph u. Ill. -. Gtt' y Illustrated.
Nyo. PIP. XVI. 2% Boston. small May
nara g. CO.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-17
That Wicked Lantern.

1t has not been forgotten that
the kicking over Of a lantern
started the great Chicago fire
That is not the last and only fire
caused by lantern, and persons
who have occasion to use them
about barns, cannot exercise too
great care. The explosion of a
lantern on Tuesday morning of
last week, started a fire that com
pletely destroyed a large barn
near Boiling Springs, Cumberland
county, on a farm tenanted by
John Swartz. Most of the live
stock, and much of the contents
Of the barn were destroyed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-17
E. Y. S. N. S. Notes.
Ye Smoke Shop.

Our Varsity Basket ball Team
badly defeated Harrisburg Tech
nical High School Team here last
Saturday evening by the score of
39-21. Barnhart and Grove,
our forwards, starred for Normal.
The visiting team played very
good ball but our forwards out
guessed them and had them on
the defensive during the whole
game.
S. A. Martin, D. D., former
principal of this School, paid US
a visit, last Saturday evening.
DR.. Martin is now teaching at
Lafayette.
All the students are patiently
awaiting the arrival of Thursday,
December 18th, as this is the
day when examinations are over
and they leave to take their
Christmas vacation of three
weeks. The winter term begins
Monday January 4th.
We, the present Fulton county
students wish all the Alumni and
former students of our county a
merry Christmas and a happy
New Year.