Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-13
War Between England and Russia, and
France and Germany--English
Summer Resorts.
The characteristics OF the Scotch
what John Bright Says About
Coming TO America.
"Reminiscences of Frederick w. Robertson
Charms Of the Isle of wight
Tennyson and His Pipe.
spceInI Corresponding.

We have hoped against it, but visit TO
Great Britain aud the continent this
summer will convince any one that I'M
less there be speedy Providential inter-
ference France will not much longer
keep her hand off Germany, while En-
gland and Russia cannot much longer be
at peace Nine out of ten Englishmen
whom have met want immediate ar
raignment of Russia. They say war must
come and the sooner 1t comes the better.
They are glad that Mr.. Gladstone is out,
and Mr.. Gladstone, as saw him the other
day, looks as II he felt relieved at being
out. Meanwhile frenchmen want TO get
back Strasbourg and Metz, and will be in
irritation until Alsace and Lorraine re-
turn. When these wars break out the
nations of Europe have so many grudges
to settle that therc will be the hemor-
rhage of continent. Blessed are the
United States In being three thousand
miles away from the field of inevitable
strife.
This approaching collision has nearly
ruined the cities dependent on the patron
age of foreign tourists. This apprehcn-
sion and the expectation of cholera make
plenty OF room for travellers, and give
them the choice of places at hotels Be-
sides this, the cities of Northern Europe
are unusually clean, and all the laws of
sanitation have been better observed.
While in Spain and Southern France the
pestllencc has been terrific, the death
rate in the most Of Europe has been very
moderate, BadenB Baden, Carlsbad and
many of the German health resorts are as
full as ever, the lack OF American and
English patronage more than made up by
the coming OF the more afilucnt classes of
Spaniards, who have fed from home TO
escape sickness.
There Is no better place in which to
study character than at the watering
place. The English watering places are
to us great fascination.
Brighton is like Long Branch. Wcy-
mouth Is like Cape May. Scarborough Is
like Saratoga. Isle of Wight is like
heaven.
Brighton being within an hour and a
half of London, the great masses pour
out to its beach and take Il dip In the sea.
But Scarborough is the place where the
high prices shut out those of slender
purse. II combines more of natural and
artificial beauty than any place | ever
saw. II is built ON terraces. Its gardens
rise in galleries. Two great arms OF
land reach out into the sea, and hundreds
OF gay sailing crafts float in. castle
seven hundred years old stray
giles its ruins out to the very
precipice. The air is tonic and the spec
hlcle bewltching. Lords and laeic,
I ,.ta g.. 10,
7 Tie place Is cool IN summer and warm II
winter. In December the thermomete
hoverS about the flfties, and the peopl,
breakfast with open windows, Will,
Others are skating In London. OF all thu
summer watering places have ever seen
in some respects Scarborough Is the mos
brilliant, and is appropriately called 9Th
Queen Of English Resorts But III
prices are enormous, and not many coul,
meet them.
Brighton is best known to American
theologians ms the scene of the late Fred
crick w. Robertson's ministry. We al
tended his little church, which holds per
haps slN or eight hundred people
but from whose pulpit II
: preached after death to thousands O
, clergymcn In Europe and America, thoS
! strange, powerful, original and melal
, choly sermons. What life of pain h
! lived, sleeping many of his nights on til
; floor with the back of his head on the bot
tom OF n chair, because he could sleep n
Q other way without torture; his wife sti
! worse torment. Some of the Englis
+, clergy have had wives celebrated in III
I wrong direction, but more of them hay
c homes decorated and memorable with a
I congugal liabilities, In the evening
: the sabbath we worshippcd in Robertson
church. We went into ''the extramur,
cemetery to see his grave, Though dea
thirty-two years his tomb bears all III
marks of fresh affection, ON all sides vine
c and flowers In the highest culture, Tw
+ bronze medallion>, one by his congrcg,
4 ton, the other by the working people WI
o almost idollZed him. On the one media
: lion his church have Inscribed: "Hol
n ored MS Il minister, beloved as man,
e awakened the hottest feelings in poorar
V rich, In Ignorant and learned: therefor
n Is he lamcnted rs their guide and con
i forter, by many who in the bond of brotl
erhood and in grateful remembrance
i have erected this monumcnt.n ON u
other medallion the working puopl
whose practical friend he proved himse
Y TO be, preferrcdlthe inscription:
c "'ro the Rev, II. W Robertson, NJ. A
In grateful remembrance of his sympath
and in deep sorrow for their loss, Il
y members Of the Mechanics Institute
d and the workipgmen OF Brighton ha,
placed this medallion ON their henefactor
y tomb How independent of time an
death an earnest man lives on. That is
d poor life that breaks down at the Gem
terry.
Many OF these illustrlous Engli,
e preachers had insignificant lookil
u churches We went to Bristol To 5,
Robert Halls chapel. The present Sc
ton remembered the great Baptist orat,
r. and preacher, The chapel In Robe
. Halls day would not hold more than $
m hundred auditors, but there he preach,
discourses that have rung round Il
<. world and will ring through Il
he ages. The size OF mans shop
not Of so much importance as the STYLE
Is work he turned out. ole Bull could nj;
= the "iialleluiah Chorusn on a corn.sta
N eddie Blessed are all they who do the
Is best whether in sphere resoundng
ii Insignificant.
AZ But the Isle OF Wight, as area,
NJ limited, has supernal beauty, II a 20
you Will 20 there aud see Tennyson
summer residence, and find him sannte
ing among the copSes with his neyitab
pipe. II you are an invalid YOU will ,
there 10 bless your lungs with the so
m atmosphere OF It's valleys. II Won n
: fond Of royalty you viii eth
y ~ INTO the Queens castle
Vepofne or SEQ her eoulpa.
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