The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-21

tention and overnight. Better tnan al
he got down among the boys, and, with
ont cant, preached such sermons TO th
students as appealed TO their tntelli
gence and the practical Necessities Q
their everyday life. Never but one
did he speak testify 10 q scholar at Rug
by. On this occasion he lost patienc
with a dullard. "Why do you speal
angrily. sir2 / am doing the best
can |" the boy retorted. In relating th
Incident DR., Arnold asserted that he hal
never felt 90 ashamed 10 his life. From
this really great mans labors, Rugby
schooling became the synonym Of al
manly requirements. Because bis sue
cessors have followed closely the line
laid down, the educational system Of al
England has been immeasurEbly I'm
proved by this one magnificent model.
Rugby town Of to-day has little TO at
tract the strangers attention aside tEon
it's famous school. Perhaps mile from
the centre OF the place, which ! presume
houses no more than seven thousand
souls, Rugby scholars included, is the
railway station, one oil the handsomesl
OF the innumerable splendid railway
stations OF England. From this, two
long, unintereBting atreets, hall built
with modern and mediocre habitaHonsi
occasionally interspersed with uuattrac'
live shops, lead up TO the old town. II
stands on a gentle eminenCa, from which
a wide surrounding tract OF splendidly
cultivated champaign country, the rich
plantations OF gentlemen's seats and an.
cient demesnes; tiny matched hamlets
nesting among elms and sycamores, and
the gentle windings Of the river Avon,
can b seen. A maze of illy.cobbled
streets with narrow pavements crowd
each other for entrance to little, irreg-
ular oblong market place, forming all
manner Of fantastic curvinge and
angles where they merge in
to It. On this market square are
the ancient inns, one that stands for tho
"Spread Eagle, "at which "Fom Brown"
was set down when he came in the Tai
lyho from Ellington, aud another one,
still more ancient, known as the "Three
HoYseshoes;" the old book.shops OF the
place, where bargains that would do
credit to London East End dickerers are
made with the Rugby lads for school
books, old and new; one or two peIk
drapers' stores; few jewellers aud
music dealers; and any number d
"sweets" stalls, with their endless
temptings to the school boys palate and
purse. But the quaintest Of these are
of the market-placs: near 1t on the BIZ.
streets. They are all lighthouses and
chops. A bell like fre'gong announce
your entrance. -Four generations OF
servers are in waiting. Old, old men
reminding one OF 'littls Gell's"
grandfather are perched in dark,
platformed corners on cary.
ed old chairs Of state. a daughter,
nearly as old, appears with rush from
the living rooms, as though long and
varied skirmishes with acknowledged
but ingenious youths had made her alert
for devise or reprisal. A still younger
matron, perhaps a widow, is potheting
among the boxes and shelves; and prim,
peachy and prudent, q young miss,
conscious Of her value as trade magnet
where there are a thousand lads 10 know
a pretty face when they see it, comes
out of the half.lights, a radiant, wheed.
ling presence. In every one Of these by.
street shops the shillings and pence OF
the Rugby lads are the entire quarry;
and everything dear To a boys heart
from cricket bats TO leaden "pasties"
comprise the stock in trade. Queer old
shop keepers all, are they; quaint as
from the last century picture books;
and they still keep the coin OF the realm
in leathern bags, and test suspicious
six.pence and thrippenny bits with their
teeth, here in Rugby.
Near the market square, along these
by.streets are many curious old nests Of
homes; little stone pens with tiny win.
dows, heavy overhanging gables, chin.
neys fourth as large as the houses,
strange carved easements, low and mar.
row doors strong enough to Withstand a
siege, all covered by masses Of ivy go
packed and dense that they seem like
habitations cut out of verdure-matted
rock. Everywhere are giant old syca.
moreB and Gins; and you irresistibiy
follow one OF these sweet old streets out
on It's London.ward way, to catch with
"Tom Browns" eyes theglimpses which
thrilled his boyish heart, when he came
that autumn morning on that memor.
able journey from Islington with old
"Blow.hard," the guard, for a compan.
ion, and drank in with innocent intoxi.
cation, the desperate and lawless tales OF
the brave Rugby lads and their destruc.
tive pea.shooters. EVERY out-'o.the.
way, SIR" observed "Blow.hard" to
Tom, in his brief but accurate descrip.
ton Of Rugby. mo PAWN to streets,
nor no lighting. 'Mszin' big horse and
cattle fair in autumn-lasts week-just
over now. Takes town o week to get
clean after it"
"Old "Blow.hard" might have hon.
estly told Tom that Rugby never got
clean after her fairs. Nobody ever
comes to Rugby when there is not q
horse fair, q cattle fair, butter and
poultry fair, or one has not Just been, OF
Is not Just going to be. That is why the
little marketplHce is always busy spot,
full oil long-coated, heayy'iowled buy
ers, frocked yeomen, red.faced, snappy-
eyed farmers wives, smoked louis from
the near hamlets, and bevies OF the
most radiaut.faced English countrywide
lasses eyes ever bsheld. Pushing
through this medley Of folk, you will
enter narrow street, go pinChed that y
| is little better than q shadowy lane, and
not stones throw from the market
place you come suddenly upon Rugby
SCHOOL itself. -,
What a fine old structure 1t is-witt
It's ponderous doors, arched and null
Toned windows, bAttlemented walls ant
pinnacled towers, just q bit gloomy, bui
brave, and stout and fine; and tiashtnl
into the fancy many q picture oil thu
grir' old EiEAbethan times Its iacad,
stretches n grand distance along Hsg!
street; and around to the east, wher
Its imposing towers look down over th
famous School Close, the scene OF in
Vulnerable mimic battles, how the Nv!
has climbed those lofty walls around
between and above the doors and win
dowB OF the masters house and leape'
the very batelements above Il
wild and luxurious luxuriauce. Then
strolling along the Close wall, tn
eye follows the gray old clump
and projections OF the quadrangle; lin
gers gently upon the lovely chapel be
yond and little by little becomes tamil
1inr With khfa Rnpna and that OF boV