The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-16


over dusty cathedral views, aud any num-
Der OF sweets" stalls, with endless tempt
ings TO the college lads palate and purse.
Inc latter are all half houses and shops
a DELL like fire gong announces your en-
trance. Four generations of servers are in
waiting. Old, old mon reminding one Of
little Nells" grandfather arc Derched in
dark platformed corners on carved old
chairs of state. A daughter, nearly as old,
appears with rush from the living rooms
as though long and varied skirmihes withs
solemn vissged but ingenious youths had
made her alert for device or reprisal. A
still younger mstron, perhaps a widow,
is pothering among the boxes and
shelves; and prim, peachy aud pru-
dent, a young miss. conscious of
her value as q trade magnet, where there
are 300 lads to know pretty face when
they see 1t, comes out Of the half lights, a
radiant, wheedling presence. In every one
OF these by-street shops the shilliugs and
pence of the Wykeham lads are the entire
quarry; and everything dear to boys
heart, from a cricket bat to leaden
''pasties," comprise the stock in trade.
Queer old shopkeepers 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 sixpences
and threepenny bits with their teeth, here
in Winchester
Again the ancient city Is given color and
interest to the stranger by the presence at
Gil times, as in all English provincial towns
or sleepy old cathedral cities, of sturdy
country folk from roundabout. II is as
though fair or market had Just been held
or was about to open. Heavy jowled stock
buyers are here. Frockei yeomen look
wonderingly into little shop windows as
though they held the marve,s of RegenE
street or the Strand. Shocked louis from
near hamlets dawdla about the streets,
snappy-eved farmers wives have come,
and best Of all there are bevies Of country
side lasses with all the radiance OF English
roses IN their flaming, peachY cheeks.
In and out Of this motley crowd glide the
cloaked masters, gently pass deans and dea-
cons, dart the bright-faced Wykeham boys.
or prance the military; for Winchester is
not only cathedral town, a college town,
and the London of Wiltshire for ell its
thriving country folk and farmers, but it is
one Of the important military oenters of En-
gland, being about equidistant from Alder
shot, its greatest military station,
val station. Il ID especially a
station for recruits, a depot for ten regi-
ments. Four are of rifles. called the Kings
Royal Rifles, four from the rifle brigade,
called the Prince Consort's Own, while two
are the hirsy-seventh and Sixty-seventh
Territorial troops. Recruits are constantly
arriving, and as constantly being drafted
into service at the different stations in
England and to the distant commands in
South America, Africa and India.
The building now used as barracks at
Winchester was originally intended for a
palace by Charles H., who built it for Nell
Gwynne, with whom he lived IN Winches-
ter, but Charles died before the palace was
finished. When the king brought pretty
al m, WfpOhozfDv- ha
dignitary in tho cathedral and nfterwRrd
known as Bishop Ken, TO accept the fair
orange girl as his guest at his house in the
cathedral close, but he peremptorily refused.
So the king was obliged to take lodgings
for Nell 10 st. Peter street Charles, how
ever, showed no resentment to Ken, but
afterward promoted him to be Bishop of
Wells.
The gray old mass of college buildings is
reached through the close alongside the ca
thedrai, thence passing into College street
under the archway of Swithin's church.
The outer gate opens directly into a quad
rangle, on the east side Of which Is the war
denis residence. From this, through an
other gateway, called middle gate,n above
which is ELECTION chamber y the great
quadrangle is entered. Here the whole CT
the principal Offices form one length of
about 100 feet. The southern side is formed
side chiefly by the kitchen. Beneath the
hall, adjoining the great hall staircase, is a
passage called seventh chamber passage"
This leads into a lesser quadrangle known
as "School Court
On the south side Of this is the school and
the chapel cloisters extend along tho eastern
side At the western side are the buildings
Of the "commoners." These ore scholars,
not foundation or free scholars. A passage
between the school and the cloister walls
leads TO 'the meads." These are the play
grounds of the college. To the west of the
meads and divided from it by an ancient
wall is the "sick house" or hospital, and
about this are pleasant grounds locally
known as ''sick-hOuse meads.n The school
can in no degree have the same interest
from modern standpoint as ample Har-
row, huge and venerable Elton or that most
beautiful and perfect of all English public
schools tine term public" schools having
en- entirely different application here from
that in our country, the Rugby OF Hughes
delicious tom Brown" and one instinct
lively seeks the odd, aatiduated and curious
within these ancient walls.
In the college bursary is an ancient veil
lum pedigree tracing the descent OF King
Henry ". from Adam, and the old college
plate contains a very fine specimen Of
Glowing cupn and a curious and very
antique salt cellar, while in the college
library are some Saxon charters, and char
tiers from the conquest of Charles II. One
Of the curiosities of the library is Raleigh's
"Briefe Description Of the NeWe Founds
Lande OF Virginia. Above the sacristy, at
the northeast OF the chapel, is as quaint
monument room as that made famous
by ChattertOu at Bristol. The
original window shutters are en-
cased in iron, nnd the oaken iron
bound chests still contain the ancient deeds
and charters of the college. Here also are
the travelling cases for the inter OF William
Of Wykeham, the wormSeate1 lockers for
the copes and the curious draws in which
the title deeds and bulls were placed. all
remaining es they were in the fourteenth
century.
Perhaps the most grotesque carvings are
TO be found in the inner or great quadrangle
above the windows. They refer to the uses
Of the several apartments. On the hall and
kitchen entrance are the bagpipe and
psaltry Over the kitchen window Excess
is represented by head vomiting OPP
posits, as Frugality, is a bursar with his iron
bound money chest. And over the masters
windows are the Pedagogue and the Listless
Scholar. Some OF the hugest freplaces TO
be found in Euglsnd are still in use In the
rooms of "collagersn aud "cOmmoners."
Tue great ball is as odd an old tumble OF
stone. carved oak aud colored glass as the
ancient guild hall of Coventry; the crypt
like beer cellar is still devoted to its old in
spring uses, ana Tagging" that relic or
,,14 coI1 Iazy a rha rGun still fnnr-