The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-31

flnches and robins are among the MOSES in
all these richards Blackbirds and thrushes
aHe everywhere in the thick shrubbe lies of
the gardens. and in the tangled hedeerows
and coppices Wrens, hedge warblers and
other tiny birds are In the matted grasses,
by the Redgerows and by the shaped run
nels in the bitches.
EVERYWHERE too, are the irregular
shaped meadows, with their fantastic hooks
and corners, and their sweet rich heYbage,
where dairy COWS and ca5tis feeding up"
for the butcher pass their tranquil lives
literally in clover. There is always sure
to be a pretty pool under the clump OF
trees at one corner, OF a shallow stream
Fippling gently along at one side, singing its
way to the valleys from the hills.
Not eight miles away are the spires and
towers of the quaint old cathedral city.
This is ancient Worcester, that earned the
title Of the Faithful City" in the time of
the c0mmonwealth in so valiantly holding
out against Orom well for the king. Young
Charles watched the last great battle from
the cathedral tower until the citizens,
vainly beating back the invaders gave him
time to make bis escape. Cromwell
revenged the plucky resistance not
80 like butcher as at Drosyheda, but
enough to leave the fair old city almost
silent and deserted for years. while only the
fowls OF the air gathered in its roofsss and
windowless cathedral.
In Worcester the old and the new touch
every where. Interesting among that
which is old are two of the most note
worthy monuments in England within the
cathedral One is that of King John, the
earliest royal effigy in any of the English
churches. The other is the monument to
Bishop Hough of Magdalen Cole celeb
rity, whom James ii. succeeded in making
the English thoroughly remember.
this mingling of the old and new is
notably characteristic of Worcester. There
are bustling streets with broad payements
and busy river wharves. There are noble
bridges, big warehouses and bigger manu-
factories with tall chimneys, and long rows
OF brick cottages for workmeD, which may
possess . 1mfort, but which have hideous
sameness and dreariness about them.
But there are broad streets, SHARPLY turn
ing cold corners and losing themselves In
the queerest of lanes running up and down
the hills. There are weather stained build
ings, sacred aud municipal, pres rived or re-
stored or par ,ially rebuilt. There is one
venerable fortified gateway, and another
graceful medieval arch, while there are
streets and WINDS aud closes with anti
duated names like Forgate and the Fryars.
So, too, there are many. many timbered
houses with those fine old open galleries
which usel to look down upon the court
wards of inns and hosielries-
wagoners and cartmen liked TO keep an eye
on their goods and guests shouted for serv-
ants instead of ringing for them.
But the quaintest, sweetest place in all
the Costwo and Malvern hills is ancient
Broadway. Broad way street Is its old and
pleasant name, derived from that great
road or trackway leading from the west Of
England to London and the east coast. and
here anciently called the BRAD weia, !" from
the shepherds "cottes on the mounted
wolds down to the msst fruitful vale Of
Evesham."
1t is one long, wide, struggling street.
with large, OPEN triangular green. at one
end branching into two great roads, one to
Cheltenham and one to Evesharn. All it's
houses are picturesque. Indeed, here is one
of the few ancient stone-built villages of
olden England, left precisely as its makers
| built it all the way from 300 to 500 years
ago, and without a single mark Of modern
Improvement" upon it. On every side are
| high pitched. gabled roofs, with
WONDERFUL stone and iron finals.
muIioned windows and bays, loaded
easements containing the original glass,
! and huge, tall, stone chimney stacks all
weathered TO most beautiful colors Low
stone walls In front inolose little old world
gardens with clipped and fanoifully shaped
yew trees.
There arc two OF the quaintest inns in
England here. Coaches have run TO and
from them as now, for hundreds Of years
Cor Broadway Is beyond the sound of the