The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-12
Observation-Disclosures
INTERESTING FEATURES IN SOMH
OLD CATHEDRAL TOWNS.

CaubDuEys 49AS 4eAhNI ZIG OF
Roman Britain-Pen Pictures of the
City, It's Interesting Surroundings.
It's Noble Cathedral and the Most
Beautiful Cathedral Close in Eng
land.
CCoDwioht0
SALISBURY, ENGLAND, May 2S.-One can
not help aimiring Englishmen all the more
because they love their tight little island''
with an arrant, defiant and unoonIpromis-
ing unreasonableness.
The admiration is not for their often
mulish and sodden defense of some features
OF English government, nor for all English
Institutions, nor for some very unpleasant
English things and people. 1t is because
every square acre of England is 30 endear-
ing III its age, association and beauty, and
those who possess it will justly brook no be-
littlement of it all; any more than you
would let some smart stranger come into
your home and sheer at your sweetest and
most cherished, if simple. belongiugs-b beau.
titled by effort, hallowed by time and use,
even more tenderly loved for your own
errors and shortcomings without pitching
both him and his airs incontinently into the
highway.
1t is such beautiful country; such a we'll
kept and delicious old garden; such a smil-
ing land in sunshine and snug and comfort
able one in storm; and withal gives to the
stranger within it such a sense of constant in
terest, coupled with close human compan-
ionship and sympathies; that cynic and
prig and incapable of interest in any land
but his own, though ne be, he cannot now
and then repress kindling enthusiasm, be
here and there pricked into secret admira-
ton, in this place and that find tender and
associative interest; and, however disloyal
it may be to his determined American
ism. in spite of himself melt under his in
Vulnerable appeals to his heart aud intellect,
until it's good and sunny face cozens his
frigidtiY into g bright, responsive look
and unwittingly his tongue pays tribute
with
Dear old England most venerable and
mellow In all things, most csutankerous and
obstinate in many. thy face has kinship and
kiugship in it, and thou art brightest and
loyeest of all strange landsm
And never will this be truer than when,
after tidy breakfast at some quiet old
city inn, at peace with all the world-or all
that can get at you-you are whirled away,
from the CRIME and slime of London, over
the London and Southwestern railway,
ancient Salisbury town
in that less than two hours journey, on
an English day in May-time, what innum-
cradle scenes of interest, of stirring quality
and Of restfulness and repose flash upon you
from your carriage window Passing from
Waterloo station, or from any other rail-
way station in the heart of London, through
the lessening deEsities of the wonderful CITY
to the first reaches Of grassy fields, is in it.
self tremendous social object lesson and
historic panorama.
But here to the left is gay old EPSON.
Over yonder, to the right, is brilliant
Ascot, with the vast and turreted home of
Englands queen, at Windsor. a leaden gray
silhouette piercing the sky beyond. To the
south sweeps
the downs of Bansted, edged with woods
And lowry villas"
while at Woking glimpse is caught of a
great English gypsy encampment.
Whsking into Hants, orHampshire, you
pass Oldham, birthplace OF the grammarian,
William Lily; and to the north lie Basing
site Of one Of the iordliest castles of early
England, and Slichester, to this day an ex-
haustless mine OF Roman remains. Within
It's walls the Usurper Constantine was in
vested with the purple; and legend has it
q that King Arthur here received his crown
Further toward the sea, near Alresford
3 are the great Tichborne estates; the sleepy
81 udlll6b u ming DdLuDOuTu, WuBF9 JOln OF
Gaunt had his old time palace; Danebury
Hill, with its frowning head and Roman
encampment; and beyond, the low, square
n tower of Winchester, behind which the pur-
s. pie fringe of woods hints OF new forest
depths, where the arrow from TYrrers bow
& pierced the heart of ruttian Rufus, Eng
lands second Norman king.
These are few of the things one will
know about from the books. Still more
e gratefully feastful are the things one will
see and feel, as lunumerable hamlets, houses
and halls are passed Glorious old manor
houses flash from parks and demesue forests.
Ihatoned roofs of village homes, yellow
with llchen, are varied here and there by
red thing. Avenues of ancient elms beech
and lines give tempting vistas above broad
roads, uesselated with lights and shades, and
Is gray and smooth as some old cathedral
moor. Cropped hedges with trim, tiny
nelds give place here and there to downs
rolling away in billowy hills of heather,
spangled with the golden asphodel, or wide
meadows and tiny marshes where flames
1he yellow marigold, or where the forget
me-nots are 50 dense and blue that their
surface seems like a breeze-rippled pool.
hawthorn lanes are white above and be-
meath as banks of driven snow. Great
masses Of honeysuckle trail from copse and
1edge; and in around and above all this
Nsy-time nature-heaven, thrushes and
HE@. AAAl oDON6 buo lOhTluR VI your
Ualn, Hood all the morn with song.
Almost enraptured one descends into the
valleys OF the downs of South Wiltshire
1ere, where the tiny Bourne, the southern
a on, the Nader and the Wiley songfully
meet IN rich and beautiful valley, are seen
'ne gray masses of the old cathedral town.
OIl as 1t is it was originally built piece
piece out of the Sarum, the dry place.
the Romans. Old and New Sarum, the
.Ie OF the old city and the new city itself
called. As you approach Salisbury
ry"h the winding course of the, Bourne you
III see the old Roman station to your
tsuL about two miles north of the CITY. 1t
Soolus upon chalky eminence, the head
tauu OF ridge of downs dominating all the
beautiful valley below.
NO one knows how long before Its occu-
fay'on oy the Romans it had been a forth
I British camp. Six great roads, still
ateaole led up to it, and when Rome con-
n go Britain, Vespasian's legions gave it
SsI more N imposing fortifcatlons. A town
a. punt about it. It was in turn bishop
- VI the West Saxons, great Norman
''Isoh, an English cathedral city from
tIlne OF King Alfred, and now, though
CENTURIES in ruins, it is still to the anti
- and archRologist one of the many
q els OF England's early days.
irene and reposefuI is oil the valley
s,s-ehe gray old city with its masses of
ne red roofs aud splendid foliage, with
marvellous cathedral spire piercing a
u44eSs Sky the mossV bridges with nara