The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-08-29

Df law or chancery, for seven years, have
been growing fat on the subject.
Standing amid its acre of grave.stones,
Arundel parish church is like a little green
isle of hcresy amid the vast possessions of
the Catholic Norfolk family. Right opposite
IL is the Dukes own Roman Church of st.
Philip de Ncri, to which he gave $500, 600,
and opened IL seven years ago. Beyond that
reaches Arundel Park, 200 acres, in pr-
vate inclosurc of II, 600 acres. II is said that
the expelled Jesuits of France are to I've
brought to England by the Duke of Norfolk,
and quartered here.
The Duke of Norfolk, being Earl Marshal
Of England. has charge of that old piece of
called the college of IIcraldry,"
where American swell tailors and bone
boilers go to buy arms for their carriage
panels and harness
The old stone church of st Nicholas Arun-
del is probably two hundred aud fifty feet
long, cross shaped and with a stunted, mill
tary tower, square, and with turret in the
centre. From this tower Waller and the
Puritans battered down the castle whose
donion is in plain range, less than five hun
dred yards away. The old church has n pcb-
bly, look, as II made up of indefinite pieces of
gray and white stone. A cock Ia over the
tower, Norman fashion, and very small crosses
over the nave and transcpts. The new
Catholic Church was designed, understand,
by the inventor of Hanson cabs--things
where the driver is behind you.
In Arundel chancel you see the tomb of
Beatrix. the bastard daughter of the King Of
Portugal, who married the second Fitzalan
Earl. Royal blood several times crossed this
family.
AT the stone lodge plunged into piece
of wood of cypress, beech, and ycw, black as
twilight, with arched aisles in it, and the
sign stood "Dogs forbidden TO enter; any
found disturbing the deer will be destroyed"
Coming suddenly ont of the wood upon
noble prospect of lawn and wood, extending
rs far as the landscape went, saw n herd
of beautiful deer, perhaps five hundred in
number. standing together in circle upon a
knoll, nearly all, thought, of the tallow-
deer kind, n sorrcl red, dappled with light
or white. Their antlers, almost as large as
the American elk's, and in spoon-like blades
instead of mere boughs, as with our wild
deer, were moving together rcstlcssly, while
their feet were nearly still. So many deer
and such sight does not exist, suppose,
in any part of the United States. They
seemed to form mathematical circle, and to
he tcthered in it by the hind legs, and all TO
be gazing outward, as in council of war or
military apprehension.
A man and woman stood behind me, young
husband and wife, as atterward found,
natives here, but living in London, and the
man said
Z" You see the females over yondcr. Those
are the bucks"
lIc pointed n mile away, and on a dis
tant hillside saw a similar squadron of
deer, all together and apparently gazing of
at these.
What is the meaning of their be-
havior 20
"That's the way deer do, at n certain
time or times of the year. The two sexes
go apart and have nothing to do with each
other"
a new pertincnce in the word "my dear -
at once sprung on my mind. After they
have gone of in tea parties with their female
friends and stood off there AMI pouted and
agreed how much they were abused, yet ever
smiling the air man-way an overture comes
of "my dear" and they break camps and
grow thrice domestic.
A crack or deep ravine, filled with Il most
clean and beautiful woods, runs through
this lawn conducting stream to n lake, and
down the sides of ii full three hundred feet
we picked our way, following the lake
| around to- the Dukes dairy and engine-housc
which propels water up to the Castle. Thcs,
are buildings of dressed stone, and TIL,
water rushing from the lakes by them is
| clear as plate-glass. A chubby dairy wife OF
maid took me through the dairy, in whicl
only seventeen cows are daily MIXED, while
there are twelve hundred deer. The butte
is sent daily to London to the Duke
table and the venison sold at shilling
a pound. In the dairy is n room in thu
French style, with blue chintz hangings
| Il.
baby and friends and drink new milk. See
ing carved letter under Il ducal corone
over tho door asked the maid whether i
was an N or a ID.
cit is Hen, SIR" said the maid, hold
ing out her hand for shilling The re
spectacle mendcancy of this island, so uni
versal, shows how well its social disci
plinc has taken the spirit out of plaii
people.
As we kept along under the back wall u
the castle, my acquaintance ratified OH abou
as follows:
"This here Duke is very unpopular in Arun
del, sir. He won't let the people improv
anything. He won't let any new houses b
built, although it's very pretty town, AM
many people want to come here to live. II
don't give any of his great income away t
help anything except his own religion. Iii
| hobby is to rpEtlllu the OLD castle, ana nav
nobody here but Roman Catholics. II
spends ESQ, 900 n wear on the castle restora
tions. Anybody of his faith that comes her
is welcomed. and to them he does make pr,
sents of free rent. or a house to live il
But the old people round here are nearl
all protcstants. and ycry much oppose
toit.n
To make the rest of the story short. W
soon entered the great old castle under tn
lowered gate. and an freshman of n melod
GUS accent took up the ticket we had Z,
gratis from the Norfolk Hotel. and usi,ere
ma on TO another melodious IrjsLuan at
second great arcI, with heavy turrets, a Dor
Icullis. manifestations. and the Norfolk Arm
again carved prodiciously above. Bctwee
these two gates two military walls. with /,
closures and n deem moat. we entered a gre;
rectaucIe of old and new buildings, chief
restorations, in which the Duke lives, anon
countless portraits of his ancestors and co,
uections. The Baron's hall is a monumel
In Magma Charta. two Fitzalans having q,
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