The Iola register., 1891-07-31

land dearest pleasure here below"
There also I saw the Ms. of Sir Wal
ter Scott's "Kenilworth, Macauley's
"History of England, "Byron's "Childe
Harold" and host of other auto
graphs of hardly less interest. In
lother rooms I found the Rosetta stone,
which first gave scholars clue by
which they translated the Egyptian
lhieroglyphics, fragments of terra Gotta
found among the ruins of Babylon and
bearing part of the Chaldean account
of the deluge, the Elgin marbles, and
ten thousand thousand other things
Not forgetting the mummy OF Cleopa'
ltra, the Serpent of the Nile" before
which one is apt to stand a long while,
thinking.
I have visited Hampton Court, the
great palace built by Cardinal Wolsey
and presented to his sovereign, King
Henry VIII, have seen its splendid
paintings, valued at 100000, its fine
collection of armor, its grape vine, zoo
years old and covering 1900 square
feet of space, and bearing this year
1900 punches of grapes, and have
strolled for miles under the spreading
branches of great horse-chestnuts
planted by William III, with hundreds
of deer grazing about, as tame as
sheep. This palace was the birth
place of Edward VI, and was the
home of English kings and queens for
nearly two centuries. 1t is built of
rel brick, and is only two stories high,
but it covers acres of ground. 1t is
still the property of the crown, but
the grounds have been converted into
a public park, and the great halls in.
to picture gallery.
have visited the Tower of London,
and have stood on the spot where for
three centuries the State offenders
were executed, have looked through
the TRAITORS gate" through which
Sir Thomas Moore passed, to be drawn
and quartered, in 1884, through which
Queen Anne Boleyn, and Queen Cath
crime Howard and Lady Jane Grey
and the Duke of Suffolk and the Earl
of Essex and so many others passed to
their death. 1 have passed up the
stairway under which the bodies of
the murdered Princes wers found, and
walked through the great chamber
now filed with a magnificent collec-
ton of armor,-where Lord Hastings
was tried and condemned. I have
stood in the room where the gentle
Clarence was murdered by his feroci-
Gus brother Richard, Duke of Glouces-
ter, where Guy Fawkes was confined
after the discovery of the Gunpowder
Plot, where Sir Walter Raleigh was
imprisoned, where Henry VI died or
was murdered. The Tower, which is
really thirteen towers connected by
an immense wall and surrounded by
a wide ditch, once a moat. is still used
as military barracks, and looks as i'll
it might continue to stand another
thousand years as it has during the
past thousand.
1 have seen st. James Palace, whsfs |
Cha rles I. spent the last night before |
he was beheaded.
1 have seen the Temple Church,
where the Knights Templar used to
come for blessing before starting out |
on their Crusades to the Holy Land,
in the little garden adjoining which
according to Shakespeare, at least
the long and bloody "War of the Ros-
es" was begun, by Plantagenet's
plucking a white rose and bidding
him who is true-born gentleman,
And stands upon the honor of his birth,
If he suppose that have pleaded TRUTH"
10 likewise, white Somerset plucked a
red rose and called upon
him that is no coward nor no fatterer
But dare maintain the party of the truth, "
@ follow his example. There are nu-
nerOus graves in and about the {
:hurch, but the only one the world
low notes is that of Oliver Goldsmith.
l have seen Hyde Park and driven
through its famous "Rotten Row" at {
he fashionable hour when the beauti-
ul avenue was thronged with the
gorgeous equipages of the rich and
,roud. In all the world there Is not
mother thoroughfare that sees in the
curse of the year so much rank and
wealth and distinction as does this
ne. Ia
1 have visited the law courts and
ave seen the stuffy little room where |
he famous Baccarat trial was held,
nd Chief Justice Coieridge in wig !
nd gown holding court, and the law
ers, also in wig and gown, pleading /
heir cases.
1 have seen the Emperor Of Germany G
n horseback reviewing 10000 troops,
"a splendid, handsome, kingly figure. d
have seen the Prince of Wales twice, n
a short, rotund man with a full N
rown beard rapidly turning gray, Il
early bald, but smiling and pleasant
nd not unhandsome. They say he is 4 d
citing hundred to one he will not s.
'me to the throne. But if he does 81
1t it will be dispensation Of proyi- " y
ence and not the opposition of the J.
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