New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-10-10
"TOMr HUGHES IN ARCADIA.
HE DESCRIBES HIS FIRST DAYS AT TBENEw RUGBY
From The Spectator.

| HE DESCRIBES HIS FIRST DAYS AT THE NEW " RUGBY.
| From The Spectator
| Twas reused at 5 or tbereabouts on the morning
after our arrival here by visit from big dog be-
longing co natiyeInot quite nast;ii Dmt more
! dow wide open. Jumped IN from the verandai, and
came to the bed TO give me good-m0rnlng with
| tail and muzzlc I was glad to see him, having
| made friends the previous evening, when the de-
| cision of his dealings with the stray hogs who
came to call on us'from the neighboring forest mad
| won my heart: but as his size and attentions
| somewhat impeded my necessarily scanty anu
| tions. had to motion him apoiogetcaliy TO The
| window when turned out. He obeycd Mt once,
| jumped out laid his muzzle on the SILL and SOL
! EMMY. and. 1 thought somewhat pltyingly,
watched my proceedlngsS' a., Meanrmec nea aha
boys" and in "A few minutes several appeared IN
flannel sbirts and trousers. bound for one OF tue
two rivers which run close by, In gnllies 200 feet
below u.s. They had heard of pool ten feet deep.
and found It. TOO and a most delicious place 1t IT,
surrounded by great rocks lying IN copse OF rhodo
dcndrons, azal-as and macnoias, which literally
| form the underwood OF the pines ana white OAK
| along these gulles The water is of temperature
which allows folk whose blood is not so hot rs 1T
used to be to lie for half an hour on ITS surface
and play about without a sensation oil chIillneSs.
On this occasion. however. preferred to let them
do the exploring. and so at Clio went OH 10 break
breakfast was scarcely over. when there was
muster of cavalry. Charles kingsey's lines came
into my head, as turned pensively to my table
in the verandah to write to you
When the world young, lad. and all the trees are
And every goose swan lad and every lass queen
Then heigh for boot anu horse lad and round The wod
Young blood must have its course lad and every dog
his day!"
Our two lasses arc undoubtedly, queens ont here.
The thought occurs, our swons-Our visions, al
ready so bright of splendid crops and simple life.
to be raised and lived in this fairy and-to provo
geese | hope not 1t would be the downfall Ot
the last castle in Spain am ever likely TO build
On reaching our abode. | was aware of tho
Forester coming across from the English garden, of
which he has charge. followed bv a young native.
He walked up to me. and announced that they
were como across to tidy up, and black the boots.
Here was another shock, that we should he fol,
lowed by the lumber of civilization so closely
Will boots be BACKED. i wonder, in the New
Jerusalemf / was az first inclined to protest,
while they made collection. and set them out on
the verandah, but the sight of the ladies' neat
little high-iows made me pause. These. at any
rate. it seemed to me, should be BACKED, even III
the Millennium. i took n hand myself. III there
was art which learned TO perfection AT school,
and still pride myself on, 1t is shining boot. In
a minute or two my boot was beginning" to soar
and sing" while the Foresters was already
thing of beauty. The native. with grunt, took
up the spare brush and began slowly rnbblng lie
comes now and spends two hours every morning
over his accomplishment evidently delighted
with the opportunity 1t gives INN for ioahng ana
watching the habits Of the strange occupants, Tor
whom also he fetches many TN pals OF water from
the well, in slow, vague manner. lie mas even
volunteered TO fix up the ladies room ann I'LL their
bath tan offer which has been declined, wi
the point OF . genuine shine"
In the afternoon | inspected the hotel, nearly
completed a knoll in the forest, between the
English garden and this frame house. IL is
slightly hulding, with deep verafdahs prettlly lat
tlced. from which gets glnpses through tho
trees of magnificent ranges OF blue. iores-coycred
mountains. We have named 1t the Tabard at me
suggestion Of one of oar American members, VINO,
being England when the Old Southwark hos,
telry from which the Canterbury Pilgrims started
was broken up, and the materials sold by auction,
to make room for hop store bought some OF me
old banssers which he has reve~nty Kept VII
.,yil Ina mt n m
Tabard. and marked with brass plate ana inscrip
ton. telling. ] trust to MANY generations OF the
place from which they came.
The drink question has reared its baleful head
here rs it seems 10 do all over the world. The
various works had gone on III peace tn the last ten
DAYS when two young natives toted over some
barrels of whiskey, and brOacbed them In shanty,
on a small lot of noman's land in the woods some
two miles from hence. Since then there has been
no peace for the manager. First, laborer or two
were suddenly missing from their work on the road
then n mechanic became incompetent here and
there on the hotel at the saw-Inllls; Till on
Saturday last the crisis came, and some twenty men
got drunk and gamblrd all through Sunday, get
day half tue work collapsed. Happily the feeling
of the community is vigorously temperate, no en-
ergetic measures are on 1000 10 root ont lhe post
This incident has decided the question Tor MS IL
we are to have influence with the poor whites ana
blacks, we must be above suspicion ourselves. SO
no fquor will he rrocurable at tho Isbard and
those who need 1t will have to import Tor them
selves. =,
Clear Fork one of the streams at the junction of
which the town site is situate. Your columns are |
not the place for descriptions Of scenery, so will
only SAY that these gorges OF the Clear FORK and
White Oak are as fine as any OF their size that
know in Scotland. They three miles long, and |
cost under Zoo, a iudicions outlay, | think, even
before an acre of land has been sold. They have |
been named the Lovers Walks. appropriately |
enough for no more well adapted place could pos
siby be found tor that tlme-honored business
especially in spring. when the whole gorgcs under
the tall pines and white oak are one blaze OF
purple yellow and white blossom.
On my return TO the plateau. my FIRST day ex- |
periences came 10 end in way which no longer |
surprised me, after the boot blacking and the |
Lovers Walks. | hailed by one OF the |
boys" who Rad been unable to obtain mount or |
had some business which kept him from exploring |
He Was in hanncIs with racquet IN hand, on ms
way to the lawn-tennls ground, TO when ne offered
TO pilot me. In a minute or two we came upon an !
opan space, marked, | see, on the plans, Cricket |
Ground" in which rose fine. strong pallug, en-
closing a sqnare OF $50 feet the uprigbs being SIX
feet high, and close enough to keep. not only boys !
ont, but tennis-bas in. Turf there was none. IN
our sense, within the enclosure and what there
must have been a substitute Tor turf had heen
carefully cleared of space sufficient Tor Que null
sized court. which was well marled out on the |
hard SANDY lean. better ground have rarely |
other scrub which here and there were struggling |
mp in last effort to assert their ancient, solitary
reign At any rate, then and there, upon That
court saw two sets played in style which would
have done credit to county match lthe young
lady. by the way. who played far from the worst
game of the four, is the champion OF her own
county, This was the opening match the racquets
having only just rived from England, though the
court has been the object of tender solcitude for
six weeks or more to the four EnglishInen already |
resident here or near by. The Rugby Tennis Club
consists to-day OF seven members five English and
two native and will probably reach two hgnres
within few days, on the return OF thc Doys'
Meantime the effect of their first practice has been
that they have resolved on putting a challenge In
the Cincinnati and Chattanooga papers offering To |
play a Inatch-best out of five sets-with airy club |
In the United States Such arc infant communities
in these latitudes VACUUs VIArUR.
JOURNALISM A PERiLOUS Profession.