The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-14
Tn Which All the Populous Nations Will Be
Engaged, and Which Will Cause the
Hemorrhage of Continent.
The Cholera and How It Has Affected
the Continental Watering-Places.
English Summer ResOrts-The Enchanting
Isle of Wight-What John Bright Says
About Coming to the United States.
Correspondence Of the Indianapolis Journal.


QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 5.-War must come. We
have hoped against it, but visit to Great
Britain and the continent this summer will con-
vince anyone that unless there be a speedy prov
idential interference France will not much
longer keep her hand off Germany, while
England and Russia cannot much longer be at
peace Nine out of ten Englishmen whom /
have met want immediate arraignment of
Russia. They say war must come, and the
sooner it comes the better. They are glad that
Mr.. Gladstone is out, and Mr.. Gladstone, as
saw him the other day, looks if he felt re-
lieved at being out Meanwhile Frenchmen
want to get back Strasbourg and Metz, and will
be in irritation until Alsace and Lorraine return
When these wars break out the nations of
Europe have SO many grudges to settle that there
will be the hemorrhage 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 patronage of foreign
tourists. This apprehension 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 pestilence has been terrific,
| the death rate in the most of Europe has been
very moderate. BadenBaden. Carlsbad and
many of the German health resorts are as full as
ever, the lack of American and English patron
age more than made up by the coming of the
more affluent 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 En-
| glish watering places 70 US great fascina-
tion.
Brighton is like Long Branch. Weymouth is
like Cape May Scarborough is like Saratoga
Isle of Wight is like heaven
Brighton being within an hour and half of
London, the great masses pour out to its beach
and take dip in the sea.
But Scarborough is the place where the high
prices shut out those of slender purse. 1t COM
bines more of natural and artificial beauty than
any place ever saw. It is built on terraces
It's gardens rise in galleries Two great arms of
land reach cut into the sea. and hundreds of gay
sailing crafts float in. A castle seven hundred
years old straggles its ruins out to the very
precipice. The air is tonic and the spectacle
bewitching. Lords, and ladies, and gentry come
here for q few weeks. The place is cool in sum
mer and warm in winter. In December the
Thermometer hovers about the ffties and the
people breakfast with open windows, while
others are skating in London. OF all the sum.
mer watering places have ever seen, in some
respects Scarborough is the most brilliant, and
is appropriately called "the queen of English
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many could meet them.
Brighton is best known to American theolog-
ans as the scene of the late Frederick w. Rob-
ertson's ministry. We attended his little church,
which holds perhaps six or eighthundred people,
but from whose pulpit he preached after death
to thousands of clergymen in Europe and Amer
lea, those strange, powerful, original and mean
choly sermons. What a life of pain he lived.
sleeping many of his nights on the floor, with
the back of his head on the bottom of chair.
because he could sleep no other way without
torture, his wife still worse torment Some
of the English clergymen have had wives cele-
brated in the wrong direction. but more of them
have homes decorated and memorable with all
conjugal affabilities. In the evening of the
Sabbath we worshiped in Robertsons church.
We went into ''the extramural cemetery" to see
his grave. Though dead thirtytwo years, his
tomb bears all the marks of fresh affection, on
all sides vines and flowers in the highest culture
Two bronze medallions. one by his congregation,
the other by the working people who almost
idoliZed him. On the one medallion his church
have inscribed: "Honored minister, beloved
as man, he awakened the hoiest feelings in
poor and rich, in ignorant and learned; therefore
is he lamented as their guide and comforter by
many, who, in the bond of brotherhood and. in
grateful remembrance have erected this monu-
ment." On the other medallion the working
people, whose practical friend he proved himself
to be, preferred the inscription: ''To the Rev.
F. ". Robertson, M. A. In grateful remem-
brance of his sympathy, and in deep sorrow for
their loss. the members of the Mechanics Insti-
tuition and the working men of Brighton have
placed this medallion on their benefactor's
tomb" How independent of time and death an
honest man lives on! That is poor life which
breaks down at the cemetery.
Many of these illustrious English preachers
had insignificant looking churches We went at
Bristol to see Robert Halls chapel. The present
sexton remembered the great Baptist. orator
and preacher. The chapel in Robert Halls day
would not hold more than six hundred auditors,
but there he preached discourses that have rung
round the world and will ring through the ages.
The size Of mans shop is not of so much impor-
tance as the style of work he turns out Ole
Bull could play the "Halelujah Chorus" OF a
corn-stalk fiddle Blessed are all they who DO
their best, whether in sphere resounding or in
significant!
But the Isle of Wight, as already hinted has
a supernal beauty If poet You will 60 there
and see Tennysons summer residence, and find
him sauntering among the copses with his inevi-
table pipe. If you are an invalid, you will go
there to bless your lungs with the soft atmos-
phere of its valleys. If you are fond of royalty
you will either get into the QueeL's castle at
If you are Christisn you will go to the village
which Leigh Richmond has made immortal, stop
at the inn called 1.-The Hare and Hounds" and
visit the grave at the northeast of the church,
reading on the tombstone: Sacred to the