The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1895-10-05
Wales and the Homeward Journey

sight seeing. One place the tourist
never fails to visit in London is Mad
anne Tussand's Wax Works, where we
find many Of the wax figures of Amerl-
cas- Statesmen among whom are Gen.
Grant and Abraham Lincoln on whose
forehead is cXquisitly traced the char
acteristic wrinkles, and the veins on his
hands are to be plainly seen. The tab
leaux of her majesty the Queen and
that Of the execution Of Mary Queen of
SCOTS are no less Interesting. On the
scatfuld over which straw is strewn
stand the figures in costumes as de-
scribcd by Froude in his history of Eng
land, Of Mary, her maids the Earl of
Shrewsbury and the Sheriff with the be-
heading axe in hand, while Mary APP
parently is about to take her place on
the block his scene is very realistic.
Here too we saw the coronation robes
Of Napoleon and Josephine who We're
crowned in Notre Dame. We also saw
the carriage in which they rode and the
bed Oh which he died, and a cradle in
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was baptized with water brought from
the Jordan river A visit to the Nation
al Gallery, Crystal Palace, and to some
Of the various parks and homes about
concludes our stay here.
We now take the London and North
Western hallway through Rugby STRAIT
ford, Crew and Chester to Rhyl where
we begin q most interesting visit to
Wales the home of our forefathers.
The principally of Waies is situated
on the western side of England and
contains twelve counties or shires. 1t
is surrounded on three sides by the
Irish Sea, Cordigan Bay and Bristol
Channel. The sea shore, its picturesque
hlil6 and mountains, narrow valleys and
streams substantially bridged rivers,
with its perfectly cultivated fields most
carefully hedged or surrounded bv
walls which are built to stay, with its
pretty farm houses or villages nesting
close to the hill sides on which feed the
southdown sheep so characteristic of
the place and the fine macadamized
roads everywhere seen, bordered with
the sturdy oak which has already stood
the storms OF ages and look strong
enough to stand many more, all make
an impression on the mind never to be
forgotten. Happy is the child who can
spend his formative period of life amid
such scenes of natural beauty, and hap
py is she who in later life can get one
glimpse of this beautiful country, see
ond only to Switzerland in natural seen
cnry, if but one, for the memory of it
can never die.
II we expected to hear the dogs bark,
horses neigh, roosters crow and the
turkeys gobblc in the Welsh language
we were disappointed for We found the
children playing on the streets, the men
IN business ard the women in the
homes, nearly all using the English lam
guage quite liuently, although much of
the counting, singing preaching and
praying IS done III Welsh, and even the
little children find no difficulty with the
double 81" and the "ch".
The Welsh people like their English
cousins have an emotional temperament,
lmpulslvc and yet capable of 4 faithful
devotcdness; of the stuff that max cs
good lovers and good haters; strong in
their preferences and III their preiu-
dicee stubborn il opposed and ifthreat-
ened immovable, yet quick to respond
to the first approach of tenderness and
generosity. They viii struggle hard
vet fairly for their rights "The truth
against the world, is their motto.
The Welsh are great lovers OF civil
and religious liberty, many of Amer
ica's greatest men were Welsh or of
Welsh decent among whom were Thorn
a. Jefferson, Robert Morris and James
y. Garfield. Also the captain of the
May flower, Capt. Jones, as well as the
founder Of Yale college, Elihu Yale
Among the most brave and brilliant of
the continental army, we find host of
Welsh blood, if not of Welsh tongue,
they fought shoulder to shoulder with
heroic and patriotic men of other ma
tionalIties until they made America a
free country ana the colonists a new
nation. Fourteen generals 4 vast num-
Der of other officers and privates were
of Welsh nationality. Among these
were zen. Nymre, Gen. Cadwallader
and MAJOR Gen. Charles Lee. And it
Is claimed that out Of the fifty signers
Of the Declaration of Independence