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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-13
FAR-FAMED CANTERBURY.
Rev. DIR. Hodges Describes Visit to the
Mother Church of EngIand-The Cele-
brated Cathedral and the Ancient Shrine
A Glirnpse of Middle A ee Scenes

Rev. DIR. Hodges Describes a Visit to the
Mother Church of England-The Cele-
brated Cathedral and the Ancient Shrine
"A Glimpse of Middle-Age Scenes.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.i
THE best way to 90 is to visit the continent
first and England afterwards. Then you
appreciate England.
You embark at Calais and set sail across the
Channel. The sea is choppy and the boat goes
up and down like swing. People who cross
the broad ocean defying Neptune and un-
touched by the pangs of NAL de mer meet
humiliation between the shores of France and
England 1t was smooth day, the sailors said,
when we made the passage. But smooth" is a
relative term on those turbulent waters. No
doubt it was smooth in comparison with the
days when the wind howls through the rigging.
and the sea dashes over the decks. and the pas
sengers are shut up in the cabin for fear of
being washed overheard. But it was sufficiently
rough, and, though we escaped sickness. we
were glad to see the white cliffs Of Dover.
Over these waters came the feet of Caesar,
adventuring in quest of new worlds to conquer.
Looking out. as we do upon these shining cliffs,
and wondering what sort of savages inhabited
these shores. And here, too, landed Hengist
and Horse leading the first Englishmen who
set foot upon the soil of England. And here,
Augustine with his 40 monks came, bringing
a new religion and civilization with them. be-
ginning conquest which is far from being
completed yet-the conquest of England for
the Lord Christ You think of these things as
you look across the troubled waters toward
Dover. What fleets upon fleets of hurrying
ships have crossed here! Ships of war with
decks crowded with armored soldiers-English,
French, Spanish; and ships of merchandise and
of fNla
personally conducted by Julius Caesar to the
parties which are personally conducted by
Thomas Cook, what running to and fro over
this uneven pathway!
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PENNSYLVANIA WAITS.

ALLENTOWN hus 1892 children enrolled in
the public schools. There are rs teachers.
A "SoAP-PoUNDERs' ASSOCIATION is the
latest secret society at Susquehanna. The
members are BARRIERS
WILLIAM MCHALE, of Carbondale, took the
total abstinence pledge from the famous Father
Mathew himself SO years ago and has never
violated il.
STEPHEN TOWNSEND, of Hartsville, had a
treat to red raspberries from his garden on
Sunday last. and will repeat the luxury to-
morrow. The berries were large, sweet and
luscious.
SUPERINTENDENT FULTON, of the West
Chester Park, took down a squirrel box the
other day, and in it found three pounds of
honey built on cones l6 inches long, inches
wide and ~ inches thick.
A GREAT many black bass are being caught
in French creek, and. as last season, they are
biting at small frogs better than on almost any
other bait. The Conneaut Lake bass have not
yet been educated to like frogs and very few
are taken on that kind of bait
MRS. JENNIE Z. SMITH has a farm at Long
Reach, Lycoming county, on which she raised
2.4O0 bushels of potatoes this year, every bush
ell fine tubers. She has them punched in a
single bin rs feet long, II wide and high
and claims the prize as champion up that coun.
try.
AUCTIoNEER GREEN, of Media, has an um-
brella said to be l50 years old. He never left
it in hotel, restaurant, or church rack. 1t
has ribs of cane thick as the average umbrella
stick of the present day, covered with q borrle-
green material nearly as thick as a canvas
tent.
AS especial attractions at the YORK fair last
week were these two: Congo, wonderful nom
descript beast with the face of human being
and mouth that chews three-ounce tobacco
plug at one time; and Taggart's six-legged bull.
a fine white Durham with six legs four shIps
and two tails.
A SHAFT % feet deet was sunk one
day at Guthrie's Store, Indiana county. and the
next day the workmen found rattle-snake
had staked off claim at the bottom. Corpe-
Illus Leonard killed it and secured eleven rat
ties as a well-earned trophy. The snake was
over three feet long.
8. A. CONRAD, Nimrod of Pine township.
Indiana county, brought down an owl the other
day which measused Ginches across the wings
this is not all While cutting off corn his dog
found grounding under pile OF rails which
had no tail and only three legs. The srumps
were completely healed.
KATE PCRSSELL. an actress, while in Oil
City, crossed over the bridge that spans the
river. She was told that it was the Allegheny
river. With a wave OF her hand she replied
with surprise: ''Then there are the Allegheny
Mountains" pointing toward the innumerabls
hills that surround that ancient burg.
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THE Custom House officers board the steam
er; but their examination is an easy ana
formal one. There is only one civilized country
which treats touris like pickpockets, and that
is the country whose ship harbor is graced with
the Statue of Liberty Enljghtening the World.
There are plenty of customs exa limitations to
vex the traveller in Europe. Sometimes 1t
seems as if you had to stop every hour or two
and open your bags and baggage. But the
officials are always courteous, and you are al
ways given credit tor common honesty The
whole business is petty and foolish medieval.
Ism. 1t is a relic of the days when bandits and
brigands levied on the strangers possessions in
every dark pass and deep forest of his journey.
But its forulalism saves 1t from any very fierce
objurgation. 1t is bother. but you endure it
like all the other interesting bothers. But at
New York it becomes robbery.
However. we are at Dover. The castle
towers up above us on its strong cliff. The
green lawns of England delight our eyes. We
hurry to the station and take the train for Can
terbury. And now we discover how lovely En-
gland is. These fair fields of green, with grace.
full trees. and thick hedge rows and little towns
of comfortable houses and parish churches
with gray towers.-there is nothing beyond the
ocean which Is so fine as this.
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AN INTELLIGENT DOG.

He Boards a Train at Livermore and
Travels to His Old Home at BlairsvilIe.
SPHcIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.l
LATRoBE, October l2-Dr. c. W. Banks. of
Derry station. is the proud possessor of an in
telligent dog, a survivor of the Johnstown food.
The animal is KEEP. at Livermore, and one day
recently, he decided to pay visit to some
canine friends in Blairsville. He calmly boarded
the train at the depot and in due time arrived
at his destination. After promenading the
boulevard. in company with reception COM
mittee composed of the best dogs in town. the
go home.
In some unknown manner he managed TO
learn what time the train left Blairsyille for
home and he trotted down to the depot in old
travellers time, one minute before the train left.
Arriving home. his airs were almost unbear-
able until supper time arrived, when he con.
sented to recognize his friends.
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PITTsBURG, October II.
That Curve Problem.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Ia Saturdays DISPATCH appears an article
from correspondent regarding a curve. or
rather the rails of curve. in which he states
that the outside rail must be the longer of the
two, and that the outside wheel travels farther
and faster than the inside wheel. That is a
mistake. For example. take a locomotive. In
rounding curve the driving-rods are, of course,
perfectly straight and cannot bend. They are
attached to the driving-wheels. The wheels
are all keyed" TO the ankle, one on either side;
the axle turns with every revolution of the
move the wheels Therefore, the entire ma
chinery thus described, being connected to-
gether, it is plain to be seen that one wheel
turns no more than the other. Under the con-
dItions named, such thing is impossible.
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER.
PITTsBURG, October IL.
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more than New York and Philadelphia COM
bined could offer. And beside, we gave the
Londoners fog every morning, you know. It
wasn't imported, either.
THE Delamater people will now cry Wolfe.
Charles has got abroad with through ticket IN
his hand this time.
SOME papers are publishing articles designed
to teach us how to cut. shoot and slash each
other. This is highly edifying, to be sure. Such
trash should be rejected at all times.
It's too late to wire: "Dear Rutan, don't
talk" The Senator will now root through his
old letters and add to the fun which eliminates
in November.
THE bread earned In the sweat of the brow is
always palatable.
THE foreign visitors had every opportunity
Of seeing Pittsburg at its best and at its worst,
thanks to the prankish October weather.
DR.. MARY WALKER still pants for fame in
politics. WILLIE WINKLE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-13

Mr.. JAY GoULD's philosophic refec-
tion that high prices can be endured very well
by letting people 'iget along with one suit
where they would otherwise have two" is
Mr.. Gould does not say how he
would regard the case of the man who only had
one suit in the first place and must therefore
get along without any; bnt we presume that he
could bear even that development of his sys-
tenn with chserful resignation.
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ARRAIGNING RAILWAY MANAGEMENT.

Mr.. Aldace f. Walker, the President of
the Interstate Commerce Railway Asso-
citation; in his call for a meeting tomorrow
of the presidents embraced in that organize
tion, makes a statement which, though not
new, is presented in connection with the
last plan for choking off competition be-
tween the roads. that requires attention.
His proposition is for a surrender by all
the competing roads of the power to make
rates on competitive traffic to "a small gen.
eral rate committee, subject only to SUPER
vision by the various Boards of Directors
and placing the ''entire joint traffic of
the roads to and from their eastern connec-
tions in charge of common agency" The
startling part of his official statement is
this sentence: "Unless something of this
kind be done, railway managers will pres
emily be chiefly receiver"
This amounts to an assertion that the
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the tunnel, and the seats of honor in the mid
die are to be located on the dividing line be-
tween Canada and the United States. AS the
United States is expected to be officially repre-
senred. close watch will have to be kept to
see that no dutiable articles of food are passed
from one of the tables to the other.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-13

THE Philadelphia Inquirer is worked up
over Emery's charges to that degree that it
calls him "a malignant political Judas" The
esteemed Inquirer should be warned against
the use of that much-worked ;epithet to which
Messrs. ingalls, and Kennedy have given a
more famous application.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-13

SPEAKING of the welcome to the Count
of Paris. the State Department is not in it, re-
marks the Washington Post 1t is satisfactory
to learn that the Government is wise enough
to perceive that it is not its business to make
an official recognition of pretender to the
throne of France
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-13

A PARAGRAPH is going the rounds of
the papers in which a member of New York's
Four Hundred is represented as alleging that
only that select body understands the art of
entertaining. AS this assertion is amplihed by
an account of entertainments given by out
siders, which were attended and sneered at by
members of that choice society. it seems to fol-
low that the Four Hundred are especially in
need of instruction on the art of being enter
tanned with due regard to the laws of courtesy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-13
The Easiest Railway Time.

To the Editor OF The Dispatch:
In reply to the question of ''S. T." in last Fri
days DISPATCH: The fastest time ever made
by rail between New York and San Francisco
was made by special theatrical train, June
l8S6-Time, days, hours. SO minutes and I6
seconds.
In reply to Still Water: The fastest time
made by a train was 92 miles in 50 minutes
one mile being made in 45 seconds, on the Phil
adelphia and Reading Railroad. D. W,
ALTOONA, October il.
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Memorable Events Recalled.

CANTERBURY used to be an abbey church,
and there was good deal Of rivalry with
the other great abbey of st. Augustine in the
old days, and st. Augustine's Abbey rather
overshadowed the importance of the
monastery of Christ Church and its
cathedral until the day of the murder. After
the most notable murder in English history was
done within the cathedral walls, and the muir
dered archbishop was made a saint and,
miracles began to be performed at his shrine,
and the King who had shared in the guilt of his
murder submitted to be fogged by the monks
of Canterbury IN the crypt of the cathedral
after that no sanctuary in Christendom equaled
Canterbury.
l saw the transept where Thomas a-Becket
stood to face his murderers. There was an
altar there in that day whose removal has
somewhat changed the look of the place. But
you can stand upon the spot. There is the door
by which the men of war came in with their
Gathering swords Here the brave Archbishop,
the indomitable defender of the peoples rights,
confronted them. Here they struck him down.
saw the pillar in the dark crypt where the
King stood or knelt TO take his monastic beat
ing, by way of penance. 1t made one think of
the castle of Camossa. and the royal humilla.
tion which was enacted there.
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The Mother Church of England.

Co religion of the Christian kind began
here IN this little sanctuary. Here is the
mother church of England. Here is the place
where men of our speech and our kin first
went to church. You see why Canterbury,
which is town now of small Importance and
away off in corner of England, should be the
seat of the Archbishop of all England. Kent
was the chief district of England when Angus
tine came here. Canterbury was the capital of
England. By and by, when the King OF North
umbria married Ethelbert's daughter, and
and the Christian church was set
up in the North of England, the center OF
work was York. for York was the capital of
Northumbria. as Canterbury was OF Kent. And
when 1t seemed good to have two archbishops
the second one took his title from the royal
town of York.
On the way between st. Martins and the
cathedral you pass the fine gateway of st. Au-
gustine's College. The gateway is nearly all
that remains of fine old abbey which was once
the glory of the town. st. Augustine himself
was the founder of it. Henry WILL always
most generous in giving away what did not be-
long to him, made a present of it to somebody
or other at the Reformation, turning the monks
out and stealing whatever was worth stealing
Finally. half century ago. it was put up at
auction, and a good man bought it-Mr. Beres-
ford Hope-and made missionary college out
of it. Whatever remained of the fine old puiid-
ing was built up into new strength, and what
ever else was needed was added.
But we have come to Canterbury to see its
great cathedral. We wonder little how the
English cathedrals will look after the splendid
churches of the continent. Will they be hu-
INFLATED into insIgnifcance by contrast? We
discuss the probabilities as we turn our steps
toward the cathedral gate. Off the man street,
where the shops are, runs little narrow lane
with houses built up high on either hand, each
upward story projecting little further into
the street than the one beneath it till the ga
bles almost touch over your head. This is
'.Mercery Ian e." There were little shops here
in the old days where you could buy amulets
and beads, and crucifixes and pictures of the
venerated st. Thomas of Canterbury.
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PHINEAs 7. BARNUM is kind enough
to predict that the Chicago Worlds Fair is
going to be a great success. This leads us to
hope that Phineas 7. will get an interest in it.
in which case it will indeed be the greatest
show on earth.
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Scene of the Canterbury Tales.

On the corner of the High street, as you turn
into the old lane stood the inn where the
pilgrims of the 'CanIerbury Tales rested after
their journey. The framework of the ancient
hostelry still stands. but they sell dry goods
now where no doubt they retailed wet goods in
generous abundance in the pilgrim times
Through the little lane we go, treading in the
steps of kings and preiates princes of the
realm and princes of the church, and friars in
cowls of brown and gray. and many humber
worshipers of the ancient time.
And specially from every shire's end
OF Engle-land to Canterbury they wend
The holy, blissful martyr for to seek
That them hath holpen when they were sick
Beneath these very carved aud scplptured
stones passed the caravans of pilgrims, under
the great gate which ends the lane into tie
fair garden in the midst of which stands the
cathedral.
Is the cathedral dwarfed and unbeautiful
after the spires of Cologne and the statued
roof of Milan, and the golden frescoes of San
Marco, and the stateliuess of Notre Dame?
There is not shadow Of disappointment.
There are two respects in which the English
cathedrals are finer than any on the continent.
They are beautiful for situation. They stand.
nearly all of them, in the midst of gardens
There are grand old trees about them
and the green lawns touch the brown
walls, and the ivy grows over the old stones
The continental cathedrals are set in the busi-
est places of great towns. They are surrounded
with stores and hotels and houses. The ground
is not o spear OF grass nor a leaf of ivy to be
seen. Beside that, on the continent there is
Just the cathedral and nothing else. And when
you have looked about the nave and explored
the chapels which are clustered about the
choir and chancel, and climbed the spire, and
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gone down into the crypt, you have seen it all.
But the English cathedrals were once the
churches of old abbeys great many of them.
And there are still remains often in ruins, of
the old mOnastic buildings. And there are
chapters and chapters of the most interesting
kind of history to be read there. You get back
into the Middle Ages. There is an interest
about the cathedrals OF England which is lack
ing in the cathedrals of the continent.
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Marriage Licenses.

To the Editor OF The Dispatch:
Please inform reader of your paper If a
marriage license is required to get married in
the State of Ohio; also, how old lady must be
to get legally married in Pennsylvania. j. q.
KITTANNING, October II.
IOhio has license law. She must be q in
Pennsy lyania and is in Ohio.
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Canterbury and Its Churches.


AND so we arrive at Canterbury. The little
town is crowded with visitors. Flags and
colors hang from the shop windows; banners
float across the corners of the streets; the side
walks are thronged to the curbstones; the no.
tells are turning people away. 1t is cricket
week. And cricket week is great time for
Canterbury. All Kent is here, and all the
neighbors of Kent are OH hand At last we
fnd lodgings at the Fleur-de-Iis. There is a
great feur-de-lis over the street door.
Canterbury has been used to crowds as long
back as the days of Godfrey Chaucer. The old
town has had long experience in entertaining
pilgrims. Probably it has most of its old-tlme
many voices. and its venerable buildings look
down upon multitude of strangers.
The best thing about the crowd from our
point of view was the fact that they all spoke
English. After q month and more of foreign
speech, in streets where the signs over the
shops were in strange tongues, and even the
little children chattered in French and Ger
man and Italian, what relief, what home
feeling to get back to the land of a reasonable
language!
The interest of Canterbury centers about two
churches-the little church of st. Martin and
the great Cathedral.
Little st. Martins is much larger in years
than it is in yards. The story is familiar one
how Augustine came on his mission from
France, sent by the good Pope Gregory who
saw the fair English slaves in the Roman mar
ket place and wanted to make angels out of
Angles; and how Ethelbert. the King of Kent.
gave him audience sitting in his throne on the
wide downs beside the town of Canterbury, his
capital; and how. after the sermon. he gave the
monks permission to preach to his people and
convert them if they could; and how a little
church was found which had been built
in the days when the Roman soldiers
guarded the island, before any English
man had ever heard of England, and here
the Christian religion was begun again upon
these shores. This little st. Martins was the
1rol, eli hrip oil IN ire
old walls. The church is long, with a square
tower at the west end. The ivy which covers
the tower from bottom to top is 800 years old.
The trunk of it is like small tree for thick
ness Inside is the old fort in which King
Ethelbert was baptized. he and his warriors.
There is very little doubt about that.
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The charge is made against Mr.. McKin-
ley's opponent tor Congress that he cannot
make speech. That failing is shared by
great many statesmen; but the trouble with
most Of them is that they do not know it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-13

Two citizeus of Biddeford, Me-, came to
blows over a tariff discussion the other day.
They must be in training for members Of Con-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-13
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Presley Katz.

Presley Katz one of the Oldest residents OF
Plumb township. died al his late residence near
Unity station. Mr.. Katz was 30 years Of age and
was well known and respected in the community
In which he lived. The funeral will take place
tomorrow.
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Quoted at 25 Cents.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
What, if any, premium is there on half
cent of the year 1906? A. E. II.
ALLEGHENY, October II.
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The plan for opening the tunnel under
the st. Clair river at Sarnia is a unique one.
A table a thousand feet long is to be spread in
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Where Beckefs Remains Rested.

7 SAW the place where the shrine stood in
which they laid the body of Beckett The
choir of Canterbury is dozen steps higher
than the nave, and the altar is lifted up above
the choir and behind the altar, higher still and
reached by flight of steps on either side, is
the chapel where was once the most gorgeous
shrine in Cbristendom. The meanest thing
about it was gold, Erasmus said. who saw it.
The wooden framework was covered with gold
plates. and these were ''damasked with gold
wire," and upon this we're jewels set in gold.
Henry VIII. stole all this. There is an empty
space where the shrine stood. Only the worn
places in the stone steps where the pilgrims
climbed to the sacred place, and the groove in
the floor around the site of the shrine worn by
the knees of pilgrims in the hard stone, re-
mains to testify to the alteration of the old
time for CanterDurys saint. H.
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CHICAGO is now joyfully contemplating
the erection of a sixteen-story building-it the
announcement that it is to be put up, is not the
talest story of ALL