The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-23
At Banquets 1t Takes Place of
Champagne and Foreign
Wines.
BY LA MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoy.


n MoNG the many extraordinary
~ manifestations of patriotism. Is
that which finds expression in
tho selection OF food, and more es-
pecially OF drink. Thus, Prince To-
kugawa. president OF the House OF
Lords of the empire OF Japan, and son
ana heir OF the last of the Tycoons.
mas secured Il decision from the court
and government that in future the ma
tlonal beverage. sake, brewed from
rice. shall take tho place of cham
payne and Of other foreign wines at
state and official banqucts and enter
tainments. The members of the House
or Lords. and principal dignitaries OF
me empire. have also joined In the
movement organized by Prince TO
kugawa. and have pledged themselves
to serge nothing but sake. and to
Danish foreign wines in their private
inequalities
There is 10 cause for any rejoicing
on tho part of the friends of the cause
or temperance I'm this movement for
sake has far more rapidly Intoxicating;
properties than any foreign wine that
l can think Of Moreover, the jap
nnese, who arc not the most temperate
race OF the Orient. may be encouraged
by Prince Tokugawa's movement TO
bele:e that the more OF their national
beverage they consume the greater
their patriotism. Sake has, also. this
disadvantage. that, like American
applejack and Irish whiskey, ii pro-
notes. not good cheer but eXtraordin-
AIRY pugnacity.
1t may be recalled that when En-
peror William first came to the throne
he was also smtten with this form OF
table patriotism. and not only insisted
that all the menus at his entertain
ments should be written In German in
stead OF French. but also that nothing
but German wines should be served at
his cable. Old Prince Bismarck. how
ever, resolutely declined to touch Ger
man champagne. even when urged TO
10 so by his sovereign, declaring that.
while mis- patriotism governed both
mis- head and his heart he would not
permit Its sway to extend to his
stomach.
Eugene Aram has been the theme OF
so much popular romance, i'll verse. in
prose and on the stage-most OF my
readers are undoubtedly acquainted
with Thomas Hoods Dream OF Eugene
Aram," and with Bulwer Lytton's novel
on the subjcct-that ii Will come as a
shock to people in America TO discover
that In lieu of having been the victim
of a judicial error and something akin
entitled to neither sympathy nor adj
miration, being after all a criminal of
a singularly rCpulsive type.
Ii ever any man deserved the fate
which overlook him. it was Eugene,
otherwise Eugcnius. Aram, who on Fri
day. August ), 1859. was sentenced by
Justice Noel, AT the York Assizes to
be hanged on the following Monday,
August 6. and his body to be hanged
N OH N Il ne q & or
near the town of Knarcsborough."
That those who, during the past con-
fury and 4 half, have shed tears over
the fate of the gentle usher, dragged
by the myrmidons of the law from the
tranquil scenes of his educational
labors at Lynn. have wasted their pity.
is shown by a remarkable exposition
Eric r.. Watson. who has had access
TO many important documents bearing
upon tie natter, in the possession or
old Sir William Ingilby, at Ripley Cas-
tie. where Eugene Aram spent his
early years and boyhood. his father,
Peter Aram. having been gardener
OF the Ingilbys on the Ripley Castle
estate.
Eric Watson shows in a most lucid
and unbiased fashion that. far from
Ara:u having been convicted OF the
actual murder of Daniel Clark on the
sole evidence OF his accomplice, Itch-
ard IIousenaI, his guilt WAS shown
by many concurrent proofs and num-
Der of the strongest circumstances.
Not the slightest doubt, according To
Eric Watson was ever entertained or
Aram's guilt, until several generations
had passed away. 1t was only that
men took the romantic figure OF the
novelist and of the poet FOR the UNI
lovely reality--a criminal whose talents
and literary abilities were only an aE-
gravation of the cowardly murder ana
robbery for which he so justly sur
fered.
Ripley Castle. under the walls OF
which Eugene .Nram spent his boy
hood. is within easy driving distance
of the popular English thermal resort
of Harrogatc. and was the scene or
that memorable encounter between the
Lady Inglby OF the day and oliver
Cromwell-a scene protrayed by many
an artist-and which shows how Crom-
we'll, shortly after the battle OF Mars
ton Moor. spent night in the castle
half sitting. half reclining, on Il couch
in the hall. watched by Lady lngiloy
throughout the lifelong night, with Il