The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-01-19

est whisper across the immense circle
from point opposite to you; wont to
the "Clock Room," far up in the north
west tower, and saw clock whose bell
weighs LIZA pounds, whose dial is 81
feet in circumference, whose minute
hand is 8 feet long, and weighs rs pounds,
and whose second hand is feet s inches
long, and weighs Al pounds. II is christ.
ened Great Tom" and bears the inscrip.
ton, "Richard Phelps made ME, l7l6"
ST. Paul's is we'll filled with monu-
ments 60 Nelson, to CORVALLIS, Rossi,
and scores more Of the noble dead.
If you only had Two hours to spend i'm
London, you would, Of course, 70 to
Westr. 'nster Abbcy-or the Minister
west of St. Paul's. 1t is venerable pile,
bull. by Henry Ill, about 1869. II is
little less now than huge cemetery,
Here genius, valor, moral worth, etc, arc
commemoratel i'll stone, marble and
bronze. For convenience sake the vast
interior is divided of, and the NORTH
1rdnsept contains the tombs of Pitt.
Palmcrston, Canning, Peel, and Others
who were distinguished either in civil or
military life; the South Trdnsept has the
Poets Corner" where are treasured tho
names of Ben johnson, Milton, Gray,
Shakespeare, Chaucer, etc. Beneath tho
pavement in this Corner" lie Samuel
johnson, Maoaulay and Charles Dickens.
But time would fail to write the names
of the multitude of distinguished men
and women-kings, queens, statesmen,
poets, warriors, preachers-who, all un.
conscious of their crowded estate here,
sleep and wait the resurrection peal Of
the last trump.
claim to be no hero worshiper
walked through these long aislos of tho
mighty dead with no feeling of man
worship. God only is great. But there
was one monument before which l paused
long, and upon which looked rcverent.
~. 1t is monument to man who, less
than century ago. was mobbed in these
adjacent streets; shut out Of the pulpits
of his own Church; maligncd by news.
papers,. preachers and politicians in
more thnn one Instance was dragged
through the streets by the hair, while in
furiated men kicked and stamped him
with their hobnailed shoes; and vet
who, in defiance Of it all, preached the
gospel to the neglected thousands until
he produced moral earthquake move.
mcnt in their 6ehalf--John Wesley, It
was tho grandest conquest that genius
and moral worth ever made in England
when the DETAINED and prosecuted ives.
ley conquered for himself place beside
England's noblest dead, in England's
noblest mausolcum.
"Westminstcr Hall" is not less inter
esting than Westminster Abbey. II adj.
joins the Abbey. lis roof, ITO feet high.
Is sad to be the finest existing example
OF that carved timber known as "ham-
mer- beam" In this Hall many of the
most thrilling events in English history
transpircd. Here were tried and con
demned to the block Chancellor More.
Lady Jane Grey, Charles L., the sevcn
bishops o! the reign of James H. Hero
the eloquent Burke thundered for months
against Warren Hastings. paused and
shut my eyes, and Imagination called up
tho long list of men and women, with
their ambitions, their hates, their re.
venges, their struggles for power, who
hero reached the end, and l said, "Van-
ity of vanites all is vanity"
You would not leave London without
visiting the British Museum" Next to
the Louvre in Paris, it is doubtless the
most wonderful collection in the world
What have you read of, or heard of.
or thought of in the way of art, ancient
and modern; in the way of animals.
from the mammoth to the humming
bird in the way of trinkets, from the
string Of bird-bills worn by New Zeal
ander belle to the crowns and robes of
kings in the way of literature, from the
quipus of the Peruvians to the hero
glyphics of the Egyptians, from the
finest Oriental manuscripts TO the first
printed book in the world? They are
all here ! Describe them? Iwould Just
as lief undertake to give an inventory of
the contents of Noah's Ark DR.. Sum
mers would stop long in the Manuscript
Room. There he would enjoy the sight
of the original Magma Charta, the Dur.
ham Book, copy of the Latin Gospels
with q Saxon Glossary of about A. d.
500, the "Codex AlcxanGrinus," tie
"Basilicon Dorror" of James l., in his
own handwriting, etc. But the Museum
must be seen, not described, to obtain n
just conception Of il.
Let us go to "The Tower" 1t is one
of the oldest buildings in London-was
originally ieudal fortress, aiterward a
State prison, now government store
house and armory. it covers an area OF
about thirteen acres. Like the Museum,
several days are required to see the con.
tents OF the Tower. On every hand there
is something to remind you of II cruel
and SEMI i-barbarous order OF life, from
which, thank God, we have escaped
There, for instance, are long lines OF fig.
ures on horseback: clad in stce! and iron
recalling the times when tho chief occu.
patton OF men was the delicate work OF
cutting throats. Here are the kettle
drums which made the music at Blen-
helm there the bloody cloak on which
General Wolfe died. Here is that inge-
nious piece OF diabolism, the thumb
screw; there is the rusted blade of the
cxecutioner's axe, and close by it the
block with the deep cash made by the
blade rs it crushed through tho bones OF
the victims necK. just there is the low
doorway 10 the cell, without windows or
ventilation, where Walter Raleigh was
imprisoned, and where he wrote his
History of the World ;" and out yonder
on the Tower Green-a spot where n
sprig Of grass has not grown in a thou.
sand years-is the identical spot where
stood the scaffold on which the sweet
spirited Henry VIII: lovingly divorced
his wives, Anne Boleyn, Katharine oi
Aragon, and Lady Jane Grey. Wherever
you turn here you meet some reminder
of "man's inhumanity to man." When
at length emerged from the dark pile
and had really satisfied myself that that
grim old warder had not locked me in q
! dungeon to await the day Of execution
| drew long breath and randered thaplc