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77 V- .Oil ft L J? , y Si From Edinburgh to London the Country Is Adorned With Smiling A Fields and Aromatic Meadows All the Charming Indications of a Long Established P r o s p e r i t y C t-o p s Planted in, Plots Like a Flower Gar den, Presenting a Lovely Picture, BY C. S. From Edinburgh to London U 'about four hundred and fifty miles. You travel ' through the southern part of Scotland .' and the heart of Engtan& On avery I hand the country Is adorned with" villas, woods, orchards, smiling flelda and fresh ' ' smelling, meadows-sJl the channing in , dicatlons of a long-established 'prosper ity. Flocks of sheep and herds of cat tle were, crazing in tht pastures, "and the grass looked tender ana good enough , for a man to eat, The, aheap, reposing on the green sward, teemed as happy as if they were on bals of softest down. I felt like I would Jlike to be upon that ,, green, .velvetry, carpet of nature' it looked so, soft and luxurimrs. It might have beau ft couch for a king, T)te roads v are maoadomized.and are as amooth As , PtokBsvaBianm'klili ; Washington city, The lasers to the highest state of cultivation, every- foot of soil produo : lag something for the attstemmee of man and,bcaat. Grass is ; the U&aole crop, ' though whet, oats and, barley are largo 5 $ grow. Turnips, tatoei, cabbage, and ail kmds of vegetables are the only ' ertps that are cultivated? AH kinds of crops-ere -planted in plots or beds like a flower garden. You will see a plot of wheat up - the gentle slope of tne bill, with tys widen heads ready for thi 5 reaperf aptot ef oats 'a few. weeks later , ehangfng ! from ' emerald to gold,' ripen i , to for i&0 h arras t; a .plot of potatoes arid turnips' with their dark-geeen olorj , aplo ot' cabbage of a paler green a plot fit' am with its verdant green-j au presenting tho loveliest picture, and -- with their varfcated, hues, look like a . piece Of embroidery. It watched every ', : thfng closely, and I never saw a weed ; ; or gulley in the whole distance of 450 , miles 1 traveled. I saw potatoes: and turnips and cabbage planted in rows ' up a .steep hill-side and there was not a wash, and the rows were straight up the hill and there were no hillside fur- rows. Jn this .country the hillsides would he washed away- I coufd not , understand it. I regret I did not have an opportunity - of. traveling through the rural district, W&ete 'I 'eould observe their methods of V farthing.: I would like to visit some of the county -seats and. old mansions, such i as Bracebridee Hall, so charmingly de- 1 aeribed by Irving in his Sketch Book. -1, v would, uke to spend a month in the rnsal districts of England. ' . . L ( England looks like she hid Just been madefy the Great Arthitect and, drop-j ped down from Paradise, and He' ex ' claimed, "It U finished". And it ia so .for there is not, another touch needed. . I could sot see . where another lick is 4 needed to add to its beauty or its charm. It is peeleet. I could gate for . efer upon the lovely prrjapeot.diversi fled by'blll and" vale, by beautiful land ' scapes and verdant meadows, by . the ' cattle feeding on a thousand hills and the gentle Iamb browsing on the edge of .tho sparkling riveulet. I never spent a more ipleasant day than I did on that journey of 450 miles from Edinburgh to . : London. The air was cool and bracing, V . and et.time my overcoat was comfort . able. There were no dust or cinders. I ' never saw a poor Jwrse or poor, eow or poor sheep in Europe.1 when I'saWi the tender, luxuriant grass upon which . . the theep and' cattle fed and fattened, . I was not surprised at the tender taut-' , ton and. beef of England, a product v that no other country nas ever equaled. " Tho French have the most' delioious " bread and coffee. When in Paris -wwuld : ' take a mutton-chop, some French rolls and a eup of eoffee. I had a breakfast -' fit for a go4. The French bread is crisp and melts in your mouth like a lump of , . loaf wmr. The coffee is so strong it hah to be diluted with tnilk before you ca, drink it. It is as stimulating as a glass of French brandy.;- ' y -t The . raUroads are ballasted with broken rocks between the sills and grass ', jrrows ontthc aides upC to. Ihe sills, jip there is no dust prodtieed by the move - mcnt of the train. The cars run steady '. and 'smoothly, and there is scarcely a ' t . HOME,, SWEET HOME . - I S, Waterhouse In New York: Sun. w 'J - ' ' After many hours of roaming 1 was 'seated In 'the gloaming ; v V , . . ' , v 4 ' IJn jthai; place'of places dearest to the inmost soul of man; ; ,,. , - , There was Tiardly tlr for breathlngr, but my good olgarwaa wreathing' f ' Rings of pleasurelthe Incerest--.when the trouble first began. . . . ' ? In tho htlddle of my dreaming I was wakened by. the screaming ' ' Of woman up above me in tpartment number nine;". . ,s na as trilling in falsetto', shatper than a new stllletto. , " . 'Something similar to "Love rne and thf universe is mine.""',',' r-'i. " ' 'f-t - : " V' - ''Y " (- Next, there' came an -awful: bellow from that phonographic, fellow,; ; v-' VTio announces in sticcato all the tortures of the year; , ) ', ' " .. t th brazen horn got started, and the agony imparted,, ' ",, Ilkd. a fiddle obllgato. 1y some" nuisance In tho rear. ' ' i -n a .' v -?' ; - ' . ' v '.White this Bedlam, was still raging two big fAlnes got t6 waging ' - - " ' Lively war upon some topic that requfreA nucht voca power i ; ; ; And three husky pianolas loosened up their Ivory molars', . .T " ' , " " I WhUft nn Infant, mlprosple,. howled In concert for ,an hour, f ' , ' . , ' .. After I. had closed each casement Ja an effort ft effacement ' . - -tf 'tf And inserted numerous' digits far, within my frenzied w$.':''Ky:-V ,'A cornetiot Just below .me started merrily to show me - 5cw ft man can get the fldsrets and tut.the one who nock&d ie scnsnlow and Just left me there defenceless c ; Was th urchin who got busy with The paperahd a comb-.' . T6r he addod to that racket Just as hard -asrhe could crack it ."' j ' Jn ft tactlmeMwelrd an4 dlayrthat'old chestnut, "Home, gweet Home," - - - : f' '.' - ' : ' It. S. WATEItHOUSE, ' ' WOOTEX jar. The engines are not as Urge as on our roads, and they have no cow catchers in front - for no cattle are ever allowed to get on the tracks,-for the land Is divided into fields bv rock fences or hedges and ell stock is thus in closed, : ;2Jo person is allowed to walk rott4 over the railway is either under by a tunnel or over by a bridge, so there is no danger of a collision with passing vehicles. . On the through trains there are -only a Jew stops: Between : Edin burgh, and London, 450 miles, there were t m fit three stops. ? Ther wiH- .veag fifty miles an hour. ? The cars are smaller than - ours. ? They .: are divided into what they call carriages that , will seat only eight -persons, ; Borne of the cars have no aisles, so when you get in s. car the door" is locked and you have to remain there till your Journey is ended. I wish some of our passengers who are always moving about could be locked up, ; Many , aocidents would , be thus prevented. In going a long jour acy you are placed in a car that has an ftlale oa the side and not in the center, as in our care. You ean ?thua move about The English system is better than the American, for the passenger can be more quiet and -private. ?; Yonr ticket is examined when yow get on, the car. There are three classes of cars first, second nd third. The first-class is four cents, the second three cents and the- third is two cents per mile. ' They said nobody rode ; on. the first-class but rich fools and Americans. ' I examined the cars of the, different classes, and the only difference. I oould see was in the color of the upholstering of the cars. So far as the comfort was concerned one was as good as the other, In the southern states, with a sparse population, rates vhave been reduced by our wise statesmen to 2 1-4 cents per mile, while England, with ft population of forty millions, half as many as the whole United States, has rates ranging from two to four cents. Will our peo ple always grope their way in darkness and ignorance and be fooled by artful demagogues, who desire nothing but a fat ofQceT I say this not because the railroads have granted me any favors, for I never rode on a free pass except when I was appointed a director of the A. & N. C. railroad by Governor- Jaryis and other roads excianged passes as 'a matter of courtesy, I never asked them for ny favors. I could name men today who are fighting the railroads, and who, to gain , an office, would throttle every road in the state, when during their whole lives they have been riding on free passes. It seems the south has loet her breed of great statesmen. There is such a thing as natural justice. Gen eral diugman, to an able and eloquent address to the people of North Carolina soon after our" great Civil war, said: The sweet influences of the Pleiades may fade, the radiant-bonds of Orion may be loosened, Arturus and his sons may no longer be guided through the celestial space's, but the great principles of Justice aro eternal," I commend these words to our wise statesmen. It will be good food for1 thought for them., One thing that impressed me greatly and excited; my surprise was the few houses in the country. I expected that there was a continuous succession of houses along .the roads, and that it would be like one solid town. You might look for mites as far as the eye could see and there was not a house to be seen, : Sometimes y6u would see a small farmhouse and a barn and stables for the stock The houses are either brick or stone and covered with tiling or slate. I never saw a wooden struc ture. I asked where do the laborers live who cultivate the fields, and they said they lived in little villages. I looked and I could soe collections of small houses, and two stories high. They live in these villages, so as to be con venient to schools and churches and for social purposes. Another thing that surprised me were the few laborers at bo liquefied to teats. work in tie ficldi. From Edinburgh to London I am 6ure I did not see twenty five men at work. The pass had been mown, the wheat was juet ready to reap, the potatoes and turnips were laid by, so it seems there was nothing 'to do. All crops were clean and not an other lick was needed, 1, saw turnips knee-high. 5 'That is ft great crop with tbem for feeding stock, From the site of the turnips they must sow them in thespring or early summer, so they can house there before the winter sets in. England Is more favorably situated than any country in the world. Entire ly surrounded by water aha has a moist, bracing, healthy climate, and from her proximity to the Gulf Stream, the rigors of j her winters ; are tempered by. tho warmth from that great tropical -river in the ocean, whose waters are warmed by an equatorial sun. Owing to " the humidity of the climate and the ab sence of scorching" winds,' the grass of Ireland, ScotkBd idrEhgland is ; always- of the1- deepest green color, henee they are great countries fc for cattle, sheep and horses. As I cams over on the steamer there were over, twenty-five Clydesdale nd ;Percheron, - colts for breeding purposes, v being ,t brought to Canada. Some only thre 'it years old would weigh 1,800 pounds., As I inhaled t&e pure, vital, heatih-givmg air of those countries. I almost wished I had never breathed the noxious air laden with ma larial poison, which seems to be neces sary to the production of the cott6n plant , , - 4 ' s When I landed at Montreal I was in vigorated by the cold air of the sea, and I, had all the elasticity of youth, with not a pain, not a halt or limp in my steps I felt as young- as I did, at sixteen; but when I reached Washington it was so hot it Seemed f was taken out of a re frigerator and put in a hot furnace. I never suffered pom heat so m my life j and when I reached home I found a hot wave,-? I took cold ;&om the sudden transition from eold , to heat I have suffered terribly.' I never, want another such experience. : I intended to stop -at Saratoga and temper off -a little, and I have wished often I had. Every hill and. vale has a name.' The Cheviot hills is a beautiful range, where the sheep feed that produce the fine wools, from which a fine cloth is made, and derives its name from those hills. Near the English Channel, where we embarked for France at New Haven, are the Southdown hills, where is raised the celebrated sheep that bear the name of the hills. The hay hi stacked without poles; and as much pains is taken with caring for it as a prudent housewife would take fn making her butter. It is placed in large stacks or rows ten or fifteen feet long and as high as they can throw up the hay, and then every par ticle f loose grass adhering to the stack is raked off; until it is as smooth as a velvet carpet, and then a piece of canvas or thick cloth is spread over the top. I thought what a contrast to' the slovenly methods practiced by1 our southern, farmers. Some years ago in traveling through the rural districts of New England by stage, I observed" that the farmers there practiced the same care in saving their hay. They would cut it and rake -It in piles about waist high, and then place over, the top a cloth so as to-turn the water, and the hay, being raked while green and before the sun bad ..wilted it, cured in the shock and retains its freshness and all of its sweetness. It is a fact that in countries that grow grass land brings a higher price, and the people are more prosperous, while in cotton-producing countries lands are cheaper in value and tho people live harder. The reason of this is, grass can be saved by machinery, without much lbor, while cotton is ex pensive to cultivate, and must be worked and gathered with the naked hand. Mr. Calhoun, in young manhood, when he commenced his political life, was in favor ef a tariff for protection. He said the south made the cotton and she ought to manufacture it. He had the wisdom of a seer; Suppose the south had car ried out his policy; she would have been the richest section of our country, But she devoted hrr energies to the produc ing of cotton, invested het money in land and negroes, while New England,! with that keen penetration that has ever characterised her people, saw her oppor tunity, and she erected factories, manu factured our " cotton," " and she becsme rich, while we remained poo'- The little State of Massachusetts, about one-third the' size of North Carolina, contains to ddy more wealth than all of the original slave slates. When Mr. Calhoun , saw that the south was devoting herself exclusively to agriculture he abandoned protection and become a free-trader. X .: iii Webster f changed his position on the tariff. He was a free-trader at first, for Boston was a commercial city, and ha thought a- tariff would jeopardise her commercial . interests, but wnen he saw his section engaging In; manufacturing he became a protectionist . :Of thergreat triumvirate, Mr. uay was the only one wno eteaaiastry sanerea to. the polic of protection. He was unwavering In hi support of, protection, and won for him self the appellation of "Father of Our Protective System' have . made this digression from my story to show that we might have been if we had used the wonderful opportunities- with which: a kind Providence bad blessed us. . But. alasf - how shortsighted is poor,' frail man. 'He is like a blind man groping his way in midnight darkness. - - ' ; Befpre ' reaching ' London ' I ' po4 Nottingham Castle, in ' whioh .Mor timer, a. powerful Engllsb earl,' and Queen Isabella, wife of Kdward the See nd, and sitter of the King of France, lived in. such a irandalons manner that the moral sense of the Enslish people was "so shock;! that King Edward the Third had Mortimer seized in the' pres snce of his mother, the Queen, wriod a prisoner to Westminster, tried and hinged on a gsllows st Tyburn. 'It pro luces a ; strong feeling the Abreast of i man to stand on ground that has' been nsde historic by events that occurred thousands of years ago. ' .There are so nany places of such interest In the Old VorM that you become satiated and weary In looking .at tuent. To the stu- lent who Is familiar with the history f the" places he visits, "there is- much "sod for thought Traveling is the bent ray t learn history and the geography of the different, countries; f I had read of the Tower and . Westminster" Abbey and the thrilling events and dranmtfo incidents' that had bten erJaried . within their sacred1' precincts ; hot after seeing then and trending upon their hallowed greuads, the memory of the " stirring scenes associated. with' them -will never be. effaced from my memory. If I could have visited them thirty years ago, when I war a young man, the- information that I gathered wouJd have been of great value to me during my whole life. I can hardly, describe the emotions that thrilled my bosom when the guide -said we are v approaching London, the , greatest city on earth, a little world; within itself, With its population of: nearly seven millions of um&n souls,' where for more than two thousand years history has been made; where kingdoms and dynasties : have been set up and pulled down like . little children , would teat down a plavhousej where the great est Roman, Julius Caesar, promenaded, the banks of the Thames with the ma- f stic tread of a mighty conqueror. As was riding from the cars to the hotel through the streets of the great city I watched with . eager interest everything that I passed. Soon we eaohad .Trafal gar J Square, with it tall coldaon and monument to Lord Nelson, with monu ments to George the Fourth, " General Havelock and others. 4 t once thought of the great naval battle of that name fought between the English and the com bined fleets of France and Spain in the Strait of Gibraltar on the 91st of Octo ber, . 1805, . when Nelson displayed from his pennon these" immortal words i "Eng land expects every man to do his duty." We pass the Parliament building, which I at once recogqUe from pictures I had seen ox tne ouuamgr tuen Westminster Abbey, which , is near the Parliament building. Our ' hotel was only . a few blocks from those historic spots,' and also from jaucxingnam faiace, ', After supper I walked over Westmin ster bridge across the. Thames, near the Parliament building. This is the most magnificent of all the bridges across the Thames and is really an ornament to the Parliament building, which is im mediately on the banks of the rfcer. Indeed the foundation for the building is laid on "the water's edge. There is toe Waterloo bridge, the London bridge, and the . Tower bridge. Just above the Westminster bridge, on the reverse edge, is Cleopatra's Needle, an obelisk brought from Egypt There is one of these nee dles in Central Park, New York, and one in the Place de Concorde, in Paris. Not far from Trafalgar Square I saw an old palace and the window out of which Charles the First stepped upon the scaf fold in the street on which be was exe cuted. : Sometimes when I read history, and . read of the crimes committed by rulers and the people alike the bloody revolutions; the overthrow of govern ments; the cruel, unrelenting civil wars between brothers and eitisem . the same country; the destruction of prop erty, the bombardment of cities;- the de vastation of fields and the burning of the homes and dwellings of peopls, I am sometimes disposed to be too narsh in my judgment against my fellow-man and pronounce him a brute and a demon. Yet these thinffs are haonenim? everv day in the fulll noonday of our coasted Christian civilization. Even wild beasts will not Jie more ferocious and cruel than- mai;7 I almost despair, but then I thank God, that all men are not so vicious and depraved, and that there are some good men and women who are the salt of the earth and the Mght of the world. ".'" Buckingham Palace is only about two blocks from raj hotel, so I walked one morning before breakfast to see it. It is a large building of dark-brown color, with few rooms, with forty acres as pri vate grounds for the King to walk in. He never appears on foot In the streets of London; so what walking he does is in these grounds. Ths building, while more imposing and larger than the White Mouse at Washington, is not as neat and tasty. In front of the palace are some beautiful gardens, and a large monument is being erected to Queen Victoria that will cost between two and three millions of dollars. It is just begun, so I can form no idea how it will look. It will toke several years to complete It. It is built by vol untarV subscription of tho people, show ing in what affection and esteem she Is held by the people. She was regarded as the common mother Of all the people, There is not a man in England who would not have died to protect her person as willingly as the person of his owrntat. urat mother. , -"I When I was returning home the stew ard on the boat, who was a Scotchman) made a prayer on Sunday evening at re ligious services. It was the most) uni versal Driver I ever heard. After orav ing for everybody, he esid we love King &dward and we lovea ins motner, vic toria. She Is venerated in England like our own Washlnjrton is in America. There is more respect for rulers in England, more reverence for law and government than here. They regard their courts as sacred and their judges as almost, infallible, and not actuated by an unworthy motive. Here svery fellow thinks he is as good as the judge, and hence has not the proper respect for his official position. It may be, that the conduct of the judges themselves, in some instances, is tne cause of this want of respect, know in the old days, when I was a boy. there was much more ref erence for the- judge than there Is now. When a 'people Jpse respect for their courts it is a. sad day for them, lor the court is the palladium of our safety. :-v i I Went around to the royal, stables to see the King's horses, and thev told me that I would hsAe apply to the master of the horse, or equery,' through the pnstofftar. I did not have time to go through that ceremony to I did not see them. The King keeps over 100 horses, Eight of these are cream-white ponies,' which he drives to his esrrisge when he appears on sisie occasions, as In oneninff Parliament. . , r i St James' Park Is just across the street from the palace, which adds to the beautv of the prospect, and further on is Hyde Park, that contains 1,280 .. J- A , . . . acres or lana, ivensinjfuiri uaraen, ior merlv the orlvste grounds of the Klnsr, hut now dedicated to the public adjoins LHyde Park and contain the statue to sort, Albert Edward. It was ererttd 4bv iho Otieen- sni the people, and h much larger , and .handsmner than the monu ment to him st Edinburgh, which I have d (werfbed, s, The statue to of ."-gilded bronsevith'S a Gothl:ptre;'vaWe.;it,' somewhat liks 8cott' ' monument" at Edinburgh, but wore Imposing and elab orate and coating ISSO.WV), painting, Sculpture, 'Architecture and Poetsry are represented in groups and figures carved on the monument, . On the front side is Homer in the center and baksneare and I)ante on each- tiile, with their ears turned to him as if listening, to catch in spiration from the father .f Poetry; with Goethe, Schiller and other poeta. Standing around on the other si Je is Michael Angelo in the center,- with Phideas, Praitelcs andlCanova-and other sculptors ' grouped around. The monument 1 of Gothio . style of architecture, which doea not confirm to the rules of harmony and symmetry, as in some others, tut depends on a certain idea of vastness, gloominess and sol emnity, which are the principle ingred ients in the sublime. The poet Thomp son seemed to have considered the Corin thian as the most beautiful. He says; '';,f:rV :' j."': "First unadorned And nobly plain, the manly Dbrio rose; The Ionic then with decent matron grace Her airy pillow heaved; luxuriant last The, rich Un-intaian spread her wanton , wreath. . K . .'I would' be glad to see the Victoria monument when completed, so at to see the contrast between her monument and the splendid memorial to her husband. As hers will cost more than three times as much as her husband's, it will be a grand and magnificent production of the highest and most f refined- art The Duchess of Sutherland . was i one of Queen Victoria's ladies of honor at her court She lived near the palace of the Queen in a beautiful and magnificent mansion. , On one occasion the Queen visited her, and she took her over the house and exhibited her furniture, i It was so much more splendid than the Queen's, she remarked to the Duchess, I hare seen your palace, I will . now return to my home.0 The Queen had an enjrairement to so riding with the Duch ess, and when the Queen was ready, the Duchess did ot arrive until after the lapse of fifteen minutes. - The Queen became impatient and when ths Duchess arrived she handed her . a gold watoh, and remarkedt TYou wilt need it, as vou seem to know nothini of the time of day." Tshould like to receive a few uch hints to be punctual the next time. 1 called at the American embassy ana asked to see the ambassador. The clerk said. "You can't See him. he is busy." knew that wai a stereotyped phrase, that he used every day to put ou visitors, i was determined not to be bluffed in that way. I looked at the young man, who was an accomplished, darling let- low, and said to him. "You go tell the American minister that an American citizen wishes to see him; that I have no business; that I don t want to oc cupy but one minute of his time that I simply wish to pay him my respects, shake his hand, and that I did not want to go bach to America and say I could not. see the minister of my country." The young man seemed amused at the bold, authoritative air I assumed, and tone of command in which I talked, as if he thought that I had better assume charge ol the minister's place. He reported to the minuter what I said, lie soon re turned and said the minister said, send up your card. I said I am none of your fashionable gentlemen and 1 dont carry cards around with me; have you any if to hand me one. He gave me one aodj l wrote my name on it. tie earned It to the minister and soon returned with the answer that I could go in. Mr. Beid met me, shook my hand and said, take a seat. I sat down and we talked sev eral minutes. , He is a very , accom plished man, with easy, graceful bear Ing, cordial and pleasing in his manners, cultured and refined in nis conversation, and in every respect a gentleman. He ran for Vice-President 'with Harrison in 1692, when Cleveland defeated him. When I started to leave he asked me at what hotel I was stopping and I told him, and when I returned his cad was then awaiting mo. There Is such a thing as common sense and knowing how to manage men. I was determined to see Mr. Rcid. I wanted to get tickets for our party to visit Parliament while in session, and you can only get them from the mlniater", but he la only allowed four ft day, two for each bouse, and they were taken up far more than a month ahead. We want through the Parliament build ina ons morning The bulldintr is a macr- nifioent structure, with towers, turrets. pircv, uu usiuarnn, giving lb fcuc np1 -pearance or some great cnuron .or ca thedral It is more beautiful than the Capitol atWmrtrington, but not so aim ple, grand and majestie at our' build ing. There are not as spacious grounds around it as our ground around our Capitol. In all my travels I saw no grounds as Vantiful as our Capitol buuare. it has ail tho beauty and ele gance of art, blended with the grandeur of nature, ine main tower is more than one hundred feet high, which faces tht street at Westminister bridge, as It crosses the river,' and has a clock in it that measures more than six feet aoros) its dial-plate. The royal entrance it through Victoria Tower, through which the King enters the building, preceded by an ofilcer bearing the great sword of state, which is adorned with diamonds and other precious stones. The King enters his robing room, where ha puts on the royal robes and proceeds to the House of Lords and delivers bis address and opens Parliament. Two rrm-chairs, one for the King and the other for the Queen, are just behind the Lord (jtan cellor's seat who presides over the up per house. The House of Lords is not as largo as our Senate ehamber. The teats are lengthwise -the room, instead of In a Semi-circle, as in the Senate. I like the arrangement of our Senate the best. iT;Th-InterioT decorations of the whole building art in exquisite taste, and are models of elcganoe and beauty. The first Parliament , building, ererted by William Rufus, about 108T, was not destroyed by the great fire in lOflt), and the present buildings are addition to the first one. The original Parliament building, where Charles Ahe First wat tried" and convicted, and where Warren Hasting was tried ' and acquitted; Is now used as a banquctlng-hall, and as a vestibule to the building. ' It was this building thatj Guy Fawket attempted to blow nj with gunpowder In I80S, dur Inir the rei.m of James the First. I saw the room in which he had ,ths powder when his plot was dUeovrrod, - The building whwe th first Parliament was held, before the one (bat ws mint be fore the refgn of William Bufnv Is bn, the opprwlta skis of tho street and- Is a sinall structure, sot more than twenty feet square,1 and Is octagonal In shape, and is now attached ta Westminster Ab bey and is used m a chapel. - Jn 'front of the Parliament building : are statues to Richard the Llon- Hearted, and Oliver, Cromwell. Crom well executed Charlet the Fhst. King of. England "More Favorably Situ at 2 C Than Any Other CountryMoist, Bracing, Healthy Climate Lon don, the Greatest City on Earth, a , Little Wofld Within Itself, Where Kingdoms Halye Been Set Up and Pulled Down. : ' England " made himself Lord Protector in 1040, and when he died was. buried with the kings in Westminster, and when Charles, the Second ascended' jthe throne and the klncly government was 1 reestablished hlsibody was thrown into tne street - ile was considered as a traitor in executing his king, and his memory was execrated throughout Eng land, About three years ago a monu ment was erected to him in the Parlia- j-ment grounds. The time will come when similar honors will be given to commem orate the virtues of the Confederate chieftians, when the passions of the people will have time to cool. England did this honor to Cromwell after a lapse of two hundred and fifty years. The TJnited Statea may well emulate the example of England st Jraui s cathedral, next to St Pe- tor's in Rome, Is tho most, beautiful church In the world. It was built after tht great fire in 1G68, and required four teen years to build it. It is 300 feet long and the dome is 400 feet high. The remains of, Nelson are buried beneath the center of the dome, and Welling ton's are burled near by, about twenty feet away. . The only time those two great men ever met was under peculiar circumstances, and they did pot know each other at tfhev passed. Wellington wat going to see the prime minister and mot Nelso coming out, bnt they did not know each other, and he asked who that old , fellow was, for, he said, he seemed to be mad. They told him it was Nelson. He was disgusted with the red tape in the minister's office. The City Hall of London has a banqueting hall, fourteenth century Gothio style, where the kings of England dine once during their reign with the Lord Mayor. Queen Victoria dined with blm twice during her reign. I saw the Temple Gardens, where the Knights Templars lived, who went to the Crusade. The house is near the river Thames, and is now occupied bv lawyers. In the British Museum a man could spend a lifetime studying tho different things to be seen there. Our trip through there was too hurried. It was near lunchtime aud tho guide only car ried us to a few places of historio In terest. It would he impossible to un dertake to describe it, for columns could be written upon the wonders to be seen. , There was a specimens of pavement for a street that was found twenty-five feet below the ground in making excava tions for the' foundations of the Bank of England building. It wat mosaic work, as fine as anything ywu will Bee 'In the floors of your finest buildings. These pavements were put down by the Romans, for in that early day the fine arts had attained to their highest per fection In Rome and Greece, and were unknown to the mdo tribes that occu pied England. In a room were ' gold ornaments fished out of the river Oxus in Persia, made 400 years before Christ, and also jewels valued at ten million of dollars, presented to the nation' by Rothschild. I saw the body and coffin of Cleopatra, who fascinated Anthony, and she died in the early part of the Christian era, and also the remains of a man who had been dead 12,000 years. That is what they told me, and I, be ing a punil, believed everything ray teacher said. Besides, it is not incredible, for the ancients had the art of embalm ing bodies to preserve them which 'is lost to this age. I , saw autograph manuscript of Scott' novel, "Kenll- worth,V a first copy of the Bible re vised by King James, and first folio of Shakespeare's Works, and original copy of Magna Cbarta extorted , from Kiug John by the Barons at Runnymcde, on June 15, 1215. It was injured by the grcst fire of 1000, and the paper On which It is written was badly scorched. Saw the Rosette stone, found In 1801 on the Kosctta, mouth of ths Nil. It is a fragment containing an inscription in the ancient picture -writing or hierogly ,pbk of the priests, ths same in the, writing of the peopls and a translation into Greekthe latter enabling a com parison and ths ultimate deciphering. It was this stone that furnished a, key for deciphering the mytterlet Of the Egypt ian bteroghyphiea. , ' ' ' The Robert Waives collection of rare specimens of crockery, paintings, guns, pistole, Oriental f-words inlaid with dia monds, rubles, sapphires, pearls, emersldi and gold, knights in full armor mounted on horses, an kinds of poirelain, in crusted with pearls, rare paintings by Rheumatism This Is often a disease of the blood, though not always, It .attacks usual ly the Joints and tissue and causes a deposit of uric acid. In its acute stage It Is one of much pain and suftennr. sometimes affecting a large part or ever all tho 'bdnty.' -Whn near the heart It Is dangerous to life. We arc ankful to say there Is a propor eatment Dr. King's Sarsaparllla Internally, to eradicate the, poison from the blood-.;. Dr. King's Nerve and Hone Iilmment externally, to tlve life to the stiffened, painful jotnta and ttu. - Sold by Burwoll-Dunn T'ctaH Mnrm, .,'..' , f Vl Mllonit 6(4 a pln luMHiarhtf mm tan a vw Voir Try , , f"t hicks' tlW . J Btnj . J trsuovm tYi RUiwU all kha 1 and fiMttt lutrnwliMnlf. WJvX li r 1 1 ftSfvlw SiwHt, u4 Ma, the great masters, existing tliret thou sand dollars an. inch; snuff-boxes inlaid -with diamonds coeting'five thousand dol lars, is next inyalue to Kotihschild't, costing six million dollars. The collee- -tlon wat made during three generations of the family,, and was given to the English nation on eondition that ' the collection should remain in the private hou?e of the donors and should be opened to the public. That is the way England's ' rich men love their country. The Na-' tional Art Gallery In London does not contain as many pictures as the iouvre, in Paris, yet they are better selected, and does not contain so many Inferior pictures. The different rooms are di vided into schools. The earliest is the Tuscan t the next Is ths Italian, with . Angelo and Raphall as the masters. The church was the first patron of the art, and most of the pictures were of a re- ligioua character. The Dutch and the . ,t Flemish were the next i school, with " Rembrandt, and Rubens aa-the muter ft. Rembrandt surpassed all other artists in : throwing light on .his pictures. Then the Spanish, with MuriUo as the mas- .. le r; then the English, with Turner at the greatest landscape painter that ever lived. He bequeathed his paintings to the nation on condition that hto master- piece, a landscape scene, should be placed ' beaida some similar production of some t French artist, to show the contrast. Tjbey complied With his request, and there are , the pictures beside each other, so every- Is body can see th difference. He had the , ' faculty of throwing light upon the pic tures which made them more brilliant and lifelike. They appear to better ad- vantage at a distance, for the light add ,' additional lustre to thnn. There wat a' painting by Lsndseer, the master painter -of America, of two puppies, that was so natural that they looked like they were ajlvo, and if you were to stroke their -hair they would mov Rosa Bonheur is ' the leader of the French school,: and V next to,Landseer in, painting anlmsts. Her "Horseehow" is a masterpiece of art , There were thousand of others. What ' I have mentioned are Just a few of the ' prominent onas. j The streets in the old part of London . are narrow, " Just wide enough for two - ' vehicles to pass. I red on the first underground railway, built thirty years ago, which cost three hundred dollars an '"' inch. There are no street carsk They ride in large omnibuses that will carry as many aw our ears. They have ar- " rangetnents so you can ride on top. They '. carry you as cheap a the cars. There Is not as much congestion on the Hreeta -; as in New York, A policeman stands at, every crossing, and by a wave of hit . hand controls the movement of all ' travel. It i like clockwork. There are ' nq collisions. , There is perfect order in London. I never taw a drunken' man or an arrest made, v ' ,,',, . England Is the best-governed country -t in the world and her people are the hap piest and the most free. An Euglish- trnan and an American were talking about ' the expense of maintaining the royal family. The Englishman said we don't , rare for that; the money is all spent here and we get it haek, It H not tald he, half aa bad as the raft and stealing , , of your state and federal government and tho corruption in your cities. The great s fraft in New York city today proves thi ruth of his assertion, where men be- ". come rich In ope night. LaGrange, N. O, Sept. 28, 1007. By Courtesy of The .Industrial .Newa. 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