The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-08-14
FORRHGN TRAVEL.
LONDON, England, July Sth. IA.

| company departure from home
that / left there. think It a com
mon fact that the people of Scot
land are inclined to cherish tn
kindestimpulses toward Americans
and that they are disposed to Civ
US due credit for all that we de
serve. Although they are trul!
loyal to their sovereign, it is appar
ent that the true republican form o
government has a place in their af
fectiOnS. Whenever they refer Il
the head of their government II i
commonly in connection with thos,
worthy traits that their Queen is 81
well known to possess.
My next movement was for THU
metropolis as the objective point
but with short delays by the way
l had spent few days upon the
borders OF the CheYiot hills, and
thereby obtained some view oftheii
character. The railroad passes
through a kind of gorge, so that the
upward and downward grades are
not very strongly marked by the
passenger, and yet the increased
speed OF the cars after thecrest OF
the hills was passed, was readily no.
ticed. There is q range of q consid-
cradle number OF miles with no
cultivated fields but there WAS no
place where the land was not capa-
BILE of use for pastuFage. Flocks of
sheep and an occasional small herd
of cattle, with y diminutiVe herds
mans habitatiOn, were the only ev-
licences that this region was inhab-
tied. There were occasional small
circular enclosures, walled in by the
stones which are superabundant in
some parts of this range of hills
The last town of much importance
in Scotland is Howack, and the first
in England is Carlisle. Each of
these towns seem TO be centers of
trade of considerable Importance,
and the lines of smoke-stacks where
mills were run by steam indicated
that they were also places for man
ufacture. Leeds is really a large
and important city, and is cOnse-
quently an extensive railroad GEN.
ter; even more SO than EmpOria or
Topeka. At one point where three
roads cross it was little novel to
observe that they cross the one
above the other, and therefore with
out any interference with each 9TH
er's movements. But this arrange
ment was rendered the more con-
venient by the uneven surface of
the ground. 1t is apparent that
cultivated farms or fields are not
and that much of the land
is used for pas:urage and the pro-
duction of hay, and the common
foods for animals, with the excep-
ton of corn or maize, for all cereals
are corn in England. 1t seemed a
little like view of past years to see
q number of men in a hay field
swinging the scythe. have the
that farm machinery is
not as much used here as in some of
the best parts of Ireland. A di-
vergance of twenty-five miles from
Leeds enables the tourist to take q
view of the old cathedral at York,
and but a few hours are lost by the
indulgence, and it is an incident
that should not be neglected by any
who wish to observe a specimen of
the finest architecture in England.
After spending night at Leices-
ter / passed onward to Bedford.
This town has recently been the
scene of a large gathering for the
purpose of observing the unwilling
of statue of John Bunyan, the
Bed ford tinker, and the author of
one of the best of human produce
lions, the Pilgrims Progress. This
ceremony was participated in by
persons of all classes, and represent
ing the various creeds of the chris
tian church. The gOod old Dean of
Westminster was there, and the
words he spoke would seem 10 indi-
cate that the rcbukes he had re-
ceived an account of his friendly re-
lations with other denominations
has not had a marked influence.
And since l have referred TO this
incident, it may not be inappropri-
ate to furnish You some sentences oil
his speech on the occasion. He said
"Fhe Mayor has done his work or
this day; the Duke of Bedford has
done his work the sculptor and
artist have done theirs, and now ]
ask you to do your work in com.
memorating John Bunyan, and that
is, every one of you who has no
read the Pilgrims Progress, if there
be any such present, read il withou
delay. Those who have read the
Pilgrims Progress a hundred times
read it again for the hundred ani
first time, and then follow out il
your lives the lessons which TIT
Pilgrims Progress teaches you AND
then you will all of you he bette
monuments of John Bunyan ever
than this magnificent statue which
the Duke of Bedford has given t
YOU" The likeness is taken from
painting by Sadler, aud Bunyan i
represented in the altitude of preach
ing, the fingers of the right hant
resting upon an open Bible held il
his left. At his feet are symbols c
his Imprisonment, and on the gran
lite pedestal there are three bronz
relieves illustrating three episode
in the Pilgrims Progress. The in
cident that persons of so variou
denominations should assemble i
the most friendly manner to shov
their respect for the memory {
John Bunyan is a reminder of th
fact that all who follow the on
I Master are one in all that is esseI
tial. And that those preachers VIII
} lean upon the only true guide j
their work, will not be distinguish
/, from those of other denomination
: while in the work of preaching
With all the genuine respect that
almost everywhere cherished for Il
memory OF Bunyan q large numb
!, OF the readers of the Pilgrims Pr
: gress do not know to what churt
: he belonged, and they need not
only that he belonged TO the chri
tian church. Although he W