Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-25


 with either failures or increase in business. The present activity and the plans for future operations are due solely to the confidence inspired by the fact that, for two years at least, we are to have legislation by protec- tionists who have in mind the best good of the whole country.
 THE PALESTINE TOUR. Notes by tho wayside-strolIs Through
 London, Rugby, Kenilworth Castle
 and the Paris Exposition.
 LuoERNE, Switzerland, Sept. 9. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 On the damp, misty morning after our ar rival at Liverpool we drove rapidly through various portions of that vast commercial me- tropolis. The dull stone buildings, be- grimmed by the tarry touch of time and the incessant volumes of bituminous smoke from thousands of dwellings, factories and public buildings, were gloomy in the extreme. Though the hour was early, long before breakfast, laboring men and women were hastening to their daily toll. Very many be- gin work at six @. m., before eating, and breafast between eight and nine o'clock. Conversing with some of them, they proved to be intelligent, cheerful and apparently contented with their earthly condition. All showed the deepest interest in America, par tioularly with the salaries received by our mechanics and other wage earners. A glance at the amounts paid in England should forever remove the cobwebs of free trade delusion from the minds of thoughtful men. Let few Illustrations suffice, which are furnished by competent authority: Conductors on trans (street ears) and om- nibuses are paid $s.72 per week and work sixteen hours day, having no Sunday rest. Policemen at London receive $5.76 week, fremen the same amount, while laboring men must be content with $4.32. Printers toll ifty-four hours 8 week in Sunderland for $720; blaoksmiths ffty-three hours for l $7. 56; carpenters, for the same time, $768; bricklayers and stone mssons fifty hours for $7.9S; tailors fifty-fve hours for $5.50, and engineers ffty-four hours for stipend of 1 $7.6s.
 The massive granite docks and piers at Liverpool have for years attracted the atten- | 1Aoh oi Ah&oA4S6A touAAsGS C5fccldllys 0Oll0- ity and durability are their prominent char aeteristics. The cost, though vast, embra- | cling several millions of dollars, has been a l wise investment. Above three hundred ! acres are covered by them, besides perhaps twenty miles of quays.
 Few other objects of interest are visible al Liverpool. Her public buildings are im- l mense and built as 8 rule of enduring gran. l ite. Various statues to men prominent in English history adorn the plszss and public parks. However, hungry for greater attrac tions elsewhere in Europe, the average tray eler pushes rapidly on.
 Rugby was our next point of interest Two hours were spent in delightful rambles through it's quaint and quiet streets, its charming hedge rows, cosy cottages and wealth of foliage. Of course the famous grammar school of the late Dr. Arnold was seen, and perhaps with supsrabundance of Yankee rsshness I sat in the chair of that eminent man, and even ascended the pulpit in the chapel. Near Rugby Addison once lived. "Tom Browns School Days" and other works of genial and gifted Thomas Hughes come naturally to mind as we gaze about.
 l KENILwoRTH CASTLE. Wentworth Castle then drew us reluctant ly away. The history of this interesting ruin covers period of possibly a thousand years. Facts regarding it are comparatively few, while traditions abound. Founded by Godfrey de Clinton, Lord Chamberlain te Henry l., it In succession became the prop erty of Henry III, Simon de Montfort, Ear of Leicester, John of Ganut, Henry ". and many more. Here Edward II. suffered i'm prisonment. It was also owned by Queer Elizabeth, who finally gave 1t to Dudley, ths Earl of Leicester, a special favorite at ths palace, who squandered eighty-ivs thousand dollars during an entertainment lasting sev entesn days.
 Over the green grassy slopes about the cas- tie many monarchs have strolled in theil tions of beauty, wealth, valor and regal pow CT, which ever and anon in the shadowy past were attracted to the spot, do these ivy-clad walls suggest. Gone! Gene!
 "What shadows are;
 What shadows do we pursue."
 From the summit of the crumbling ruin extended and delightful views are afforded verdant loveliness, with stretches of charm ing English landscape, attract the eye But we may not tarry. Thousands of miles, by land and sea, yet to be traversed call us away frem the scene, and we hasten by { rapid train on to London.
 LONDON.
 Negress night had drawn her sombel curtain when our party alighted. Carriages are in readiness and away we speed for Co vent Garden Hotel.
 The great oity seems substantially thu same as we left it three years ago. The pusf of the bustling multitude, the roar of busses And yet London, like all great business cen, ters, varies like the kaleidoscope. Deatl does it's direful work. Reverses overtak the oldest mercantile houses, while emigra tion and immigration alike forbid any ap proach to stagnation. Hence, like Tenny sons song of the brook, modified migh read,
 sMan may come and man may go, l But London goes on forever" ,l The formidable strike of the dock laborer ! was in progress. All phases of the subjec received ample treatment, not only in tn local press, including the Times, Telegraph and other publications, but by the publi generally. From the tops of busses an , trans, within coffee houses and beer shops even along the corridors of the Bank 0 England and the Royal Exchange, it was tn 3 of horrors, and West End, in rustling sill and costly broadcloth, talked it over. Eve :, at Westminster Abbey on Sunday, and i other pulpits, the officiating clergymen al . luded to it in eonciliatory terms, and cour , seled moderation and peace on the part ( the people.
 :. Our party roamed ad ibitum throughou the metropolis without attempting unity 3 action. The National Gallery of Art-Bri
 iah Museum-Tower of London, with th
 'sthousand and one" objects of interel : abounding. on every hand, were drawn upo freely.
 , The single Sabbath at our disposal inclr ded services at City Road chapel (Wesleya1 l in the morning, Westminster Abbey in tI afternoon and Spurgeon's Tabernacle { night. The former church is the Methods A Mecca. Founded and built by John Wesle - his old pulpit being still there, his hous ], writing desk and famous teapot next doc n with his grave in the rear of the church. e! = plain, in some degree at least, the denomint B tional interest in the locality. ' By the eide of Wesley sleeps Rev. Jab' - Bunting and Rev. Richard Watson, conspi r uous theologians of their day, with mon, = ment to the memory of Rev. Dr. Ada O ~ba fan