The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-04

9o feet from east to west; It Is 92 feet high, and the walls are 10 feet thick. There are twelve towers, most of which are associated with many palm ful memories. In Bloody tower the sons of Edward ", were murdered by order of Richard III, and the darkest murders cluster about the silent towers which rear their darkened eummits in all directions.
 In the Bowyer tower the Duke of Clarence was drowned in butt of Malmsey wine, and in the Record tower Henry VI. was foully murdered. In one corner of the fortress stands the chapel of St. Peter, This was erected by Edward I. on the site of an ancient church. and l trust my readers will pardon a lengthy quotation from Mae auley in reference to the little burial ground right next to this church: "In truth there Is no sadder spot on earth than this little cemetery; Death is there associated not, as in Westminster Abbey and St. Pauls, with genius and virtue, with public veneration and with imperishable renown; not, as in our humblest churches and church. yards, with everything that is most en- dearing fin social and domestic charities but with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny; with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconsistency, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen and blighted fame"
 The executions took place in the tow CTS, save in the eases of Anne Boylen, Catherine Howard and Lady Jane Grey, who were beheaded In the open space on Tower Hill. I was more than surprised to learn that William Penn was born in the tower. I think in 1644. Let a person read W. H. Aims worth's "Tower of London" and then visit the tower and he will be more than interested. I found "Battersea Park a delightful, cool retreat on a hot summer day. This fine park is but one of very many London parks. It is 1S5 acres in extent, and is situated at the southwest end of the city, on the right bank of the Thames. This park is the great resort of bicycle riders, who wheel here in great numbers. Every body in this park appears to be mount ed on the wonderful wheel and away they fly like lightning. No one seems to be too old or too young to enjoy the machine. The aged, with stiff limbs contracting with angular motions, jointed younger riders glide along with the very poetry of motion, and the thew woman," with her new fangled attire (what is woman coming to, any wayo is a common object on every path. We walked through the park and passed a short distance up a wide street till we came to our destination. which was the 'FHome for Outcast and Friendless Dogs" and of this institu- ton let me give your readers a short description This home consists of a very large brick building, right on the street, and as you enter you find your self in very well equipped office, with plenty of attendants in uniform you enter your name in the register, and one of the guards conducts you into long series of passages, houses. kennels and grounds. The kennels are scrupulously clean and so arranged | that you can walk through them and examine the dogs, which are kept se- curely within Tn some of the kennels there are perhaps half dozen inmates while in others are many dogs, and the way they howl and bark to escape is piteous in the exetreme. These dogs actually appear to know what fate has in store for them, and they dash at the iron bars of their prison houses and bark loudly to be delivered. The poor unfortunates are collected in various parts of the city. They are lost dogs; many of them are "battered old hulks" straying at large and driven to desper- ation by starvation. Many of them are pets which have fallen into bad com pany. Nearly one hundred are brought in daily and placed in the kennels
 where they are bathed and fed and furnished with bright new collars, and at first no doubt this must be an ideal existence for the poor creatures.
 After five days, if no owner appears to claim the waifs, they are separated; ; the saleable, valuable dogs are placed in other kennels, and the ugly and sick are put into a large wire cage in little stalls; the heavy and large animals are placed in the bottom tiers and above are packed the smaller ones. The cage contains eighty prisoners. It is, when 1 filled, rolled into an tir tight compart- ment, a current of charcoal gas is :. turned on, and in less than a minute all are asphyxiated. The dead bodies are then thrown into an immense ere matory, and in a short time the cal cined bones are raked out, packed away in bags and sold for fertilizing l purposes. In this manner weekly hun dreds of dogs finish off their mortal coil, and as this institution has been established for many years, an incred- ible number of dogs have been put out of existence, and still the dogs about London are constantly increasing. It is surprising to note the many breeds of dogs to be seen in this home. Scores of fox terriers, collies, bulls, terriers, greyhounds, turnspits and every other kind of dog can be found here. Many fine animals are sold here at moderate prices. When no purchasers appear 1 they are pitched into the furnace to make room for newcomers. This insti- tuition has a home for cats. Pet cats are placed here to board while their l owners go away for the summer, and cats galore are to be seen here wink l ing and blinking in the sunlipht and