Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-07-28

mother of Harold, and her daughter, but
they escaped safely to Bruges, while Perkin
Narbeck, as Richard W., when Joined by
the Cornishmen of Bodmin, besieged the
place but unsucces5fully, and was finally
hanged at Tyburn.
And so on and on runs the grim story
that has left just enough scar and hard
ness on the lovely, lcafy old city to add
mellow charm TO all you may see and
know. Fifty Thousand folk do not live
together in more winsome spot in Eng
land. The emhoWered Devon hills which
surround it, the glorious valleys which
reach their greens and blooms to its very
doors. the grand sweep of the Exc vale TO
the sea- the city's noble old antiques, It's
beautiful streets, half in the shadows of a
remote architectural past and half in the
sunshine of modern elegance and adorn-
ment, give everything upon which you
look a sweet and winsome face.
1t all blends in that tine sunset glow
| which some OF these old cathedral towns
| take on SO iittingly. The pleasant seeming
| smiles back 10 You from polished panes,
| from snow white old arches from bright
red roofs and brighter red banks Of roses,
from marvelously clean stone steps and
| arenwayS, from bits Of ancient things,
from doornobs and brasses glittering like
| FURNISHED gold, from the suggest and
trimmest of shop windows; indeed. from
all things that can tell substantial, well
kept age without the semblance of a
wrinkle or frown upon it.
Gou feel this sense of radating hearth
ness and amplitude again in Exeter around
the market places on these pleasant market
days. All the country folk gathered here
are all garmented. comfortable and CHEEKY
They all look as though they had SteppeC
out of the 'merrie old England of tbs
books, now so hard to find outside tht
covers of those books. Pride CLOVIS il
their faces for old Devon and Exeter it,
capital, and in themselves. They do say
Dickens found his Fat Boy" of DingieN
for they are fat and fine and staunch on
and all. Rosy, overlapping iowls and hi!
paunches, suggestive of plum pudding
and the famous "clotted cream of Devon
are everywhere among them.
You are thus i'll love with Exeter lon
| before you have many times wandered III
and down Queen and High streets, satin
tered through the arcade Of Chapel street
, peering into the old half timberel struC
. lures that cluster in stately fashion aroun
the wide cathedral close, and have at las
: come among the silences within the grea
cathedral walls A pctiant can alone tel
i another the cNactitudes and measurement
t oil such messy, massive, marvelou
= edifirc. Coming one bv one to England
y
/ remember of them all those impression
{ upon Your mind and heart which SCENE
0 most powerfully characteristic of each,
In The sense of architectural distinctly,
e ness Exeter cathedral will remain in you
/ memory remarkably distinguished froT
r all other English tathedruls. Their plan
> invariably comprise II huge central TOW,
] and smaller towers At the west end. llel
II are towers browning the transept. I'll
Z does away with the usual four cHmbcrsun
arches architecturally separating nave All
!. choir, and permits the grandesL unintc
a rupted view Of varlt and vista of the cntil
is nave and choir TO BIZ found in England.
d Two other structural peculiarites ri
l. seen In this cathedral, The choir and ii
j. nave are of equal length. and throngho,
s. the whole edice the openings are wiz
If and low, rather than narrow and lofty. III
$, latter feature contributes greatly, alOI
II with the emphatic feeling that the stru
ID lure is not a hodge-pollg ept restoration
y but one great design, to a sense in the h
! holder Of Undesirable breadth and sp
W ciunsncss, Whatever else YOU may fe
d. within Exeter Cathedral, which has sto,
So here practically as you now see il for q
es tainly more than 600 and perhaps mo
p than 500 years, ii will remain il Va
lr memory as tile one cathedral of Englal
which must stand as the highest eXprt
is sion in cunsecrated stone Of perfect digni
OF and repose. EpnAR q. WAKEMAS.