Omaha daily bee., 1888-02-19
Honors Paid to the Author of "Paraa
disc Lost"
FITTING TRIBUTE TO HIS FAME.
Kind Words For the Great Amerfs
can Philanthropist.
MATTHEW ARNoLo's MEMORIAL.
The Learned Englishman Portrays in
Eloquent Language the Scenes
in His Life-A Pathetic
AllusiOn.
The Childs' Window Unveiled.

IhS SuutuS W IuttOW OuVcIIeus
lCOpyright 1883 bu James Gordon BennettI
LONDON, Feb. 1S.-[New York Herald
Cable-Special to the Bee. - George w.
Childs, who is now gazetted over England AZ
a candidate for president, was this after
noon the hero of the hour under the shadowa
of Westminster abbey, Westminster hall and
parliament towers. Whether in compliment
to his known distaste for notOriety, %
Scribners' magazine desired monopoly Of
Mathew Arnold's paper just read, the proA
ceedings were only private in unveiling tho
memorial window that Mr.. Childs has prot
called the Milton window. Laymen sentit
nels stood ut the doors and express orders
were given not to admit reporters. The pro.
ceedings were begun in the small vestrY
room, where only about sixty persons werd
allowed. These included DIR. Maccauley,
editor of Leisure Hours who is very apos-
tolc- looking gentleman, and the Baroness
Burdett Coutts and her husband
Washmead Bartlett Coutts, the trio
especially representing Mr.. Childs;
Robert Browning, sometimes styled here the
"Modern Milton;" Sir Edwin Arnold, editor
of the Daily Telegraph the American min-
ister; A. p. Turner, q Philadelphia bankerj
the Rev. Henry White, the family of Archt
deacon Farrer. Archdeacon Farrer meme
toned incidentally that the parish register
contained entries of the marriage Of Cathars
inc Woodcock, Of Aldermanbury, with Mill
ton, October 22, 1865, and the birth of their
child Milton in the following April, 1857, and
the death of the wife soon after. e.
Archdeacon Farrer, in a brief address,
traced the history of the venerable church
and referrsd in complimentary language To
Mr.. Childs as the only American who had
illustrated English history by monumental
gifts, instancing his memory in the
abbey to the poets Cowper and Hoy
bert. He concluded with the intro-
duction of Matthew Arnold, whose college
prize poem was "Olver Cromwell and
His Times" and therefore ON ap.
propriate writer on Milton. His paper, the
reading of which took twenty minutes, began
with an encomium to Mr.. Childs as philan-
traced the life of Milton and "the grand
work accomplished for the English speaking
races by his writings and especially by his
poetry" He patheticaiy alluded to his blind
ness and to the indomitable way in which he
persevered in spite of the afflction. Tho
paper throughout LAS classic bit of poetical
word painting. He concluded by observing
that the window was not placed as dedica-
tion to Milton, the politician, nor to Milton,
the prose writer, but essentially to Milton -
the Immortal author of Paradise Lost"
The little private gathering then re-entere4
tho church, where Canon Farrar remove4t
the curtain and the ceremony of unveilin0
the window was over. 4
The window is in the attic at the far end,
of the church which abuts towards West.
minister abbey and is between the Raleigh
and the Lord Frederick Cavendish windows.
1t was executed by the London firm that has
carried out the work Of decorations Of all the
windows in the church excepting two. 1t ID
| Of the style of the perpendicular period Of
| the sixteenth century and is known as fouy,
| light-traced window. The four center lights
| represent scenes in Mlton's life-dictating
while blind to his daughter, entering st. Paul
school as a scholar and his interview
with Calico. The four outer lights display
scenes from paradise Lost' and "Paradisc
Regained." The outer lights are surrounded
| by border of wreaths with the Miltonic
monogram alternating. At the bottom is the
following inscription: '"To the glory Of God
and in memory Of the immortal poet John
Milton, whose wife and child are buried here,
this window is dedicated by G. w. Childs, OF
Philadelphia, u. S. A., 1885,"
Southern Cattle Quarantined.
| SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb. 1s.-Pursuant to
the report of the state board Of live stock
commissioners that conditions exist among
49,. .A.A H.