The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-29

and suddenly the splendid facades of Rydal
hall, the seat of the LIE Jennings, appear
above the luxuriant shrubbery of its
splendid park. Higher still you climb, and
where the dark roadway seems to make
final circle over the brow of the hill to the
left you pause to listen. Something like
low and hesitant organ notes is murmuring
in minor chords, while a gay and joyous
treble plays in exultant tones above, All!
you remember. These are the voices of the
two cascades Of Rydal. Their songs were
sung to the poet Wadsworth for forty happy
years.
Between the Littledale falls and the
Westmoreland hills, in the Lune valley Of
Lancashire. England, in one Of my recent
wanderings in the lake district came upon
an interesting British government Of
fioIal This official was a woman. You
could not, and she would not, tell whether
she was ~ or so years OF age. In other re-
spects she was exceedingly chatty and
friendly She was nearly six feet tall.
Her frame was like a mans, and so was
her face. She could outwalk any yeoman
of the hills, and was firm and hard as iron.
She wore hob-nailed boots, short heavy
wooden skirt Of home spinning and weav-
ing, an under jacket of corduroy and the
grotesque short skirted, red striped blue
coat and regulation cap of the British
poetman.
have pride 10 my own achievements as
a walker, but | could not keep in pace with
this woman for half mile. Before l had,
putting and painting, fallen behind her for
rest and rumination l had learned that this
faithful body had carried the British mails,
often being laden with from fifty TO eighty
pounds of post parcels for delivery, over
twenty miles every weekday for the past
twenty-one years. AS / sat on a rock by
the roadside thinking the matter over, as
she disappeared with a fine strong stride
that l envied, l could NOS help figuring out
with my stick In the chalkY dust Of the
stony road that she had already walked
nearly the distance of five times the earth's
circumference for the pittance of 10 shillings
per week, or but 9546 for the entire term Of
taenty-one years drudgerYl
A few mornings since heard some PRIDE
full conversation between "cheery" London
| costermongers and Covent garden porters,
which afterward found to be true, show
ing that two Of the most famous singers
London has ever known, reached fame
through the peculiar and hard training
| originally secured among she lowly OF their
| ilk Albert Chevalier, now the greatest OK
! living character imDersonators, practically
| lived among the costers for years; and the
marvellous fidelity Of his songs and imper-
donations OF ooster life and character were
wholly gained in this manner Sims Reeves.
| the one tenor who Tor nearly half century
held eli the song lovers Of Britain enslaved,
once carried the knot" that Is, the head
| pad Of a Covent garden porter, ana GOT hls
Fart AZ a singer IN the former foul dens
within tho sound of Bow bells.
When your tourist fancy leads you into
| Scotland 20 farther. IL is but a little sea
iaupt from Aberdeen, Peterhead Or WICK 70
| he shetland Islands. Their people are very
hospItable, possessing many PLEASANT an
eisnt customs and there is no snd 70 nioaeIh
| historic and pagan monuments OK strange
and curious i1tersst. N0t the least Of your