The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-14

turc than ever Dickens printed.
A little further up tho came street, al
number l02, Is hugo old building, now
transformed intou foundry. where Sir
William Gladstone, father OF the pres
ont Liberal leader, formerly carried on
banking business; aud d five.pound
note OF his iasno maystill BIO seen In tho
Gloucester museum. Just opposite Ia
the most characteristic old inn, entered
through huge arcade, have yet found
In England. II is called New Inn,
though very, very old. II was built to
accommodate tho pilgrims to the tomb
OF Edward H., under the abbacy OF
Thomas Seabrooko In l5ll. II Is 451
years old and absolutely intact.
In Wcstgate street almost opposite
where you enter the little court Leading
to tho cathedral IS another strange old
Inn, not so largo as New Inn, but even
moro fantastic aud charming. Never
elsewhere was secn such q radiant jun
bic OF odd corners, little arches, pro-
truding upper stories, pee2.holea OF
windows, gablcs, offices. ''ostries," tap.
rooms, aud wealth OF foliage and club
by.cheeked bNr.maids TO heighten tho
mysteries, cheer and charm Of this typi-
cal old English inn. IA. r. ~
Most OF tho shops arc entered by
steps below the street. One, two, three
and four century old buildings bulge
and protrude above them. Nearly all
tho structures in the district previously
referred to h1vo second stories which
project from ono to three feet beyond
the frat. withcurious old carved brack-
cts, where they stand ut street corners;
and moro than half have third and
fourth stories projecting in tho same
manner.
All have strange, indcscribablo odd
windows. tiny-paned, little, big, broad,
narrow, long, short, round and square,
with loadcased lintels; and they furnish
the Qunintcst collection OF gables eyes
ever beheld. Perhaps the primmest and
tidiest OF them all Is the half-tinbercd
home and printing-house Of Robert
Raikes, at number Is, Southgatc street.
The body OF the grand old PHILANTHROPY
ist lies in tho Church OF st. Mary de
Crypt, not fifty yards away.
Any ono visiting the old cathedral
towns OF England will be deeply I'M
impressed by tho extreme simplicity
and almost rural character OF their in
habitants. Barring the presence of
few modern innovations, one seems TO
have come into tho atmosphere of an
old English novel. This is especially
true in Gloucester. All day long tho
thoroughiares have n quiet country
market coloring. The actual inhabl-
tants slip about and attend 10 their
meager affairs with smiling, humble,
tolerative air, rs though they had I'M
consciously taken on the mannersof the
cathedral vergers, and rather stood
aside for tho more strapping and
brawny country element. III AE
CHARACTERISTIC SCENES.
Tho latter furnished many pleasant
studies. Lons.coatcd, heavy-iowled
buyers arc here. Frockcd listless,
open-mouthed women are here. Your
genuine Engliss farmer is here, him
with the stubby, sandy tabs oil whiskcrs
upon his ruddy face. with bushy brows,
and tirm-set mouth that ever opens
and shuts with a sound as though
huge cork had. been violently pulled.
Snappy-eycd' farmers wives are here.
with ample skirts and bonnats and
plume3 that would piqu, with envy a
London costermonger belle. And bet
terthan all here are beyiei OF tho, mos.
radiant-faced English countryside lasses
eyes ever beheld.
A more stirring and quite as, charac-
terful sceRa Como. Yitha5 skc@eye ning.
The four-tuned chimes 81 the sweet
cathedral bells have scarcely ceased
when thousands OF Gloucester lads and
lasscs are upon tho streets. The little
shops are abaze. All the household
marketing OF the day is now being done
for the morrow, t.0na canssscarcclv
make progress or tho narrow walks,
and the mass overilows upon and fills
the carriase-ways. Then it is you will
sec innocent, unabashed, sturdy love-
making at its best. There is 10 secrecy
about it. The smacking is resonant,
the caressins unchecked, the embracing
muscula: and ardent. 1t increases in
activity and universally until 10
o'clock. Then out 90 tho lights and
away to their homes whish the young
folk, thci: heavy hobs beating thun-
drously upon tho rcsounding pave
ments. AlInostin an instant, You are
alone whit the helmeteu roundsmen
upon their beats and utter silence has
fallen upon the old cathedral town.
However others may feel, l never en-
ter an old-world cathedral without awe
inmy heart apart and distinct from
tInf Iirapt op1 npfs
which the sacred character OF the struc-
ture impels.
This is because I stand in a spot
which is 4 tomb OF innumerablc per-
sonages who have assisted,in making,
or have gained places in. the worlds
history; because the upbuilding, pres
eryation, destruction bilttation, OF
what my hands may touch. or eyes be-
hold, have often, changed dynasties, i'm
poverishcd TREASURES, created pilgrim
ages and sacrificed countless lives land
more than all else because, for. century
after century thousands upon thousands
OF great minds have with matchless
fidelity given OF their steiforts or ab-
solutcsy their 'hic's devotion towards
the perfection of this mightyprayer in
stone.
ITS MAIN INTEREST.
And there uro cathcdrals and cathe-
-drals besides. There is tho vast and
gloomy sort like York Minister; those
OF Doric ponderosity, like st. Pauls in
London; and those that blind il not the
spiritual the physical sight with their
vastness and ghlstliness like Cantor.