Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05
Letter from Rev. M. w. Reed.
from the Indianapolis Journal

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reminded of the boy who said that he
was not homesick, but he felt that there
were too many houses and too much
sidewalk. [ leave my hotel at s A. NJ.
fresh, and about 8 P. NJ. I..arrive at the
point of departure with a desire to be
pnt in my little bed. It's an embar-
rassment of riches. thought to take
about year to "do' the British Mus
cum, but [ adopt the motto of the house
of Stirling: Gang Forward" and do
itin halfa day. In wandering through
these places I am struck with the atten
tion paid in the old days to the art of
killing. Lances, guns, swords, aud
daggers. The handle Of the old dag
ger is elaborate!y carved and set with
pearl and gold, whereas the knife to
eat with is a plain, common affair.
They paid more attention to killing than
to living. Ii makes me perspire to
look at suit OF armor and to think
thaS it was worn under a Syrian sun.
1t seems to me that | would prefer to
take the risk and comfort Of going to
the war without it. They do not seem
to have been very big men who wore
those steel suits Seldom [ see one
that | could get on without cramp.
[ am interested in the Indian weapons,
SO we'll adapted for killing-knives with
twisted blades. 4 man stuck with one
of these vicious blades could say of his
wound, with Mercutio: "Tis not SO deep
as 4 well nor so wide as, church door
but it will serve.' [ looked upon the
"Scavenger's Daughter" an instrument
of torture, and was glad that the man
who invented it was dead. 1t is an in
genious mechanism TO develop agony.
tried on sthumb-screw, aod was
satiifed The sensation is that Of a
toothache under the thumb,nail. The
block and Ak crafty the appetite for
the CHASTITY that we all have The
association Of these with the necks OF
Walter Raleigh, Anne Boleyp and
Lady Jane Grey makes them momora-
be. But | am not going to write a
| goide-book to The tower of London
There are some in print sold for six
pence as you enter the gate. We were
put through the tower in squads and
led BY an old party in the costume Of
the time of Henry the Eighth / was
glad to set away from him and out
into the streets. I have spent a good
deal Of my days in London on the sop
of omnibuses, It IS cheap and slightly,
and the driver appeased by a two-pen
ny cigar, is cenversable and imparts use
ful information.
THE Criss cross road" through Lon
don takes yon forty-eight miles over
and around and back, and | performed
it with some variations In tull day
/ OF course, | got lost in london. [ got
lost about ten minutes after leaving my
hotel: and continued in that state dur
ing the day. Lost, but serene and
confident that eventually shall bring
around to the Tavistock, and be greet
ed by the smell of shot joint"
The sky is uncertain It has rained
off and on, Gay and night, since my ar
rival. [ went to hear Spurgeon, and
was delighted with the Westinghouse
The conditions ore met perfectly. But
the preacher disappointed me wofully
He is the homIiest man in England
and that is putting it very strong, In
deed. His prayer was stilted and me
chanieal, and his sermon was without
edge or poiut. Boiled down it might
| be put into a fye-minutes prayer
meeting talk. Nevertheless, he is do
ing a great work in Londou, and has. a
power thas [ failed to discover
I devoted a half day to Gustave
Dore's paintings. Very noble is that
of Chrisi's descent from the Pratorium
but very abominable are all the rest,
There is power in them, but it is ma
Ign There is an evident delight in
the horrible. He ministers to the same
appetite that sends people to visit a
public hanging or rallies them to a
snake show. His Massacre Of the
Innocents is utter brutality unrelieved.
[ bad to take straight walk Of two
hours in order to get rid ofthe horror
Of it.
In an unguarded moment I allowed
myself to go into the Chamber Of
Horrors" in Madame Tussaud's wax
works. The ak Of the guillotine is the
attraction, fanked by wax murderers
and murdered. Promptly at 4 P. NJ. [
was at the geological gardens. Wis.
itors are requested not to irritate the
animals" [ joined the procession in
waiting to see the lions, etc., fed. 1t
evidently was not porter-house steak
that was thrown in to them. | am
about done with London. To.day I
went into the House of Commons and
Lords. The Lords are respectable
body of men, rather thin as to their
legs, for Englishmen, but not at all re-
markable. They speak with intense
difficulty, seem to have an impediment
in their speech, and hem, and haw, and
stammer in manner painful to remem.
ber. The Englishman is also deaf