Omaha daily bee., 1892-10-17

ments. -Four are OF rifles, called the Kings
Royal Rifles four from the Rife brigade,
called the Prince Consorps Own, while two
are the Thirty-seventh and Sixty seventh
territorial troops. Recruits are constantly
beng drafted into service at the different
stations In EuGlaud and to the distant com.
mands In South America, Africa and
India.
Hunt for Pretty Mistress Nell,
The building now used as barracks at
Winchester was originally intended for q
palace by Charles H., who built 1t for Nell
Gwynue, with whom he lived at Winchester,
but Charles dted before tho palace was
finished. When the king brought pretty
Nell" 10 Winchester no begged Ken, then
dignitarv in the cathedral and afterwards
known as Bishop Ken, to accept the fair
orange girl rs his guest nj house at the
cathedral close, but he pere nv. orily refused.
So the king was obliged totaGe lodgings for
Nell In ST. Peter street. Charles, however,
showed no resentment TO Ken, but after
wards promoted him to be bishop of Wells.
The gray Old mass of college buildings is
reached through the close alongside the ca
thedral thence passing into College street
under tho archway OF ST SWlthln's church.
The outer gate opens directly into the quad
ran gle, on the east side OF which Is the war.
denis residence. From this through another
gateway, called middle gate" above which
is election chamber" the great quadrangle
is entered. Here the whole OF the principal
offices form length of about lC0 feet
The southern side is formed by the chapel
and hall, and the western side chiefly by the
kitchen. Beneath tho hall, adjoining the
great hall staircase, is passage called "sev
enth chamber passage" ms leads into
lesser quadrangle known as "school court"
school surroundings.
On the south side of this is the school, and
the chapel clolsters extend along the eastern
side. AT the western side are the buildings
| OF tho "commoners.n These are scholars,
| not foundation or free scholars. A passage
| between the school and the closter walls
leads to 'the meads." These are the play
grounds OF tho college. To tho 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." The school
| can in no degree have the same interest from
modern standpoint as ample Harrow, huge
aud most venerable Elton, or that most beau
| tful and perfect of all English public schools
(the term public schools having an en-
| trely different application here from that in
our country, the Rugby OF Hughes deli
cious "rom Brown and one iustnctively
| seeks the odd, antquated and curious within
| these ancient walls.
| In the college bursary is an ancient vellum
| pedigree tracing the descent OF King Henry
| ". from Adam, and the old college plate
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| cup" and curious and very large antique
salt cellar. while in the college library are
| some Saxon charters, and charters from the
| Conquest to the reign of Charles ii. One of
| the curiositles of tho library is Raeigh's
! "Bricfe Description of the Newc Founde
Lande of Virginia" Above the sacristy, at
| the northeast of the chapel, is as quaint a
imminent room as that made famous by
| Chatterton AZ Bristol. The original window
shutters are encased in iron, and the oaken
| iroubound chests still contain the ancient
deeds and charters Of the college. Here also
| are the travelling cases for the miter of Will
liam of WycKham the rm-eaten lockers for
the copes and the curious drawers il. which
| the title deeds and bulls were placed, all re
| naming as they were i'll the fourteenth cen
| tury.
| Carvings Of Homcly Ailegory.
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 psal-
terry. Over the kitchen window Excess is
represented by head vomiting. Opposite.
as Frugaliuy, is a bursar with his iron bound
money chest. And over the masters WIN
dows are the Pedagogue and the Listless
Scholar, Some of tho largest tireplaces TO be
found in England are still In use In the rooms
of ''collcgers'' and "commoners." The great
hall is as odd an old jumbc of stone, carved
oak and colored glass as the ancient guild
hall of Coventry; the cryptlike beer cellar is
still devoted to its old inspiring uses, and
"fagging," that relic of medieval college day
barbarism, still fiourishes in this venerable
school.
There are nearly 500 boys at Winchester
college. l have seen them sin hail." u,
chapel, in closters, in hot" in football,
and in nearly all their various moods and
duties of everyday college life; but the time
when their forms, faces and voices mos.
thrill my own old boys heart is when, the
years work all done, they gather in the
pleasant meads and pour forth their home
| longings in that sweetest OF ali songs OF
home going and college parting. "Dulce
| Domum," whose tender strains will remain
long after these old walls are mingled with
| the dust of their buiders
| Sing with Il sweet melodious measure,
| Watt enchanting lays around
| Home, Il theme replcte with pleasure!
| Home, grateful theme rcsound!
| Home. sweet home. an ample treasure!
| Home. with holy blessings crown'd!
| Home. perpetual source of pleasure,
| Home, IL nobio strain re5ound.
| EDGAR l.. WAKEMAN.