The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-09-02


 not even a hurricane could uproot them, They are aged plants and many of them remind me of those ancient trees in the Garden of Gethsemane. lf iron battle-ships of war plough the main again-and this may happen England's oaks will surround the na- ton with perfect bulwark of strength | in the shape of those wooden walls for which she has been renowned for | thousand years The ivy and green sward of England are wondrously beau tiful. London Is the most populous city in the world and it possesses a very in- teresting history.
 There is no authentic evidence as to its earliest history, but it was city when Tacitus wrote of it as Londlnium nearly two thousand years ago; 1t was called such from the ancient British name Llyn signifying 'pool' and din or dun meaning a strong place. The pool is called such to this day and the strong place, probably a stronghold down near the neighborhood of the Tower, which is built on the side of the pool
 Some learned mem declare that the first settlement of London was made fully two thousand years B. C., judging from certain very ancient remains. The population is nearly six million souls, and if one takes his stand 9n London Bridge at monday and beholds the tens of thousands of busy people passing and repassing, or if he presses | through the crowds on the Strand or Fleet street, or Ludgate Hill towards | St. Paups church, or along Piccadilly, he will get an idea of the enormous population of this very, big city. Very many avenues are jammed with cabs, hansoms, omnibuses and foot passen- gers, and perfect Babel it is, for six million people take up deal of room and create a deal of hustle and noise
 We'll may the English look with pride upon St. Paul's and Westminster Ab- bey In what country will one find l their equal? There is much of history centered in those magnificent buildings, and such grand tombs as they contain. There are the centers about which beats the life not only of London itself, but of the British empire. I have a number of times visited the Poets Cor ner in the Abbey. could finger long there. Nay, I could dwell there in the company of Shakespeare, Pope, Addis- son, Tennyson, Goldsmith, Longfellow and thousand others. Statesmen, poets, men of letters, soldiers and sail ors sleep quietly there and England points to their memorial stones with gratified pride.
 hO 11NIJ n0 6 " National gallery and many other places demand deal of time, and I find little can be done in careful sightseeing in the short space of two or three weeks; and then the trips to Oxford, Hampton Court and other places are to be made; these latter we defer till September and October, when we return from the south coast. The omnibusses of Lon. don are study; how they thread the crowded thoroughfares, how they mass about Trafalgar Square beneath that gigantic column which a great nation | erected as mighty trophy to the gen. ious of Englands greatest sailor; hun dreds of 'busses are to be seen on Hyde Park corner near Aps1ey House, in front of which stands the grand memorial to the Iron Duke, the hero of the Peninsu- lar, the warrior who not only pressed back the French at Waterloo, but oblit- erated the French army led on by their emperor (of short stature). What a blessing to Europe that Napoleon was packed off to St. Helena; it saved a deal of further trouble to many nations, | I am surprised to find that the Eng fish have such 8 passion of bill posting; on 'busses, in the railroad stations and in short everywhere am confronted by l the most startling posters. I have, I feel. become well aware that Nestles' 1 Swiss milk is the very best for infants, I know all about the cleansing merits of l Hudson's soap, and since coming here have discovered that Beecham's Pills, although costing but one shilling and three pence, are cheap at one guinea per box, so at least state thousands of circulars all over London. There are many fine equipages here in our neigh borhood, for we are dwelling in Glouces- ter Place, Portman Square; the Duke of Fife lives at No. 15, Lord Portman dwells on the corneEand a host of fash lionables have fine houses all about us; the buffers, footmen and coachmen with curled and powdered wigs and backs as stiff as ramrods appear quite crushing, at least to the English who admire such distinctive attire.
 Many of the nobility dwell in London in houses without outside cornices and built of plain smoke-stained bricks and no window caps; such ugly buildings have never seen; whole streets look like rows of mean factories; but the interi- ors of these dwellings are magnificent. went to Downing street yesterday to look at Gladstone's house-No 10-the | one he occupied when he was prime minister; the front of that little narrow house could mot have cost over one hum dred dollars.
 The cab system in London and in Continental cities is admirable; a fine Hanson will take two people long distance for twenty-four cents, and to get to and fro it is quite cheap, as com pared to the method of getting about our American cities.
 The underground railway is a great convenience to Londoners. From Ba- ker street you can go to the Tower for five pence (ten cents), which is cheap for so long a ride. Many thousands travel underground to all parts of the city. and it is a. pretty rapid way of get 4inU oIn1Jf and nf c0IJrsn if is varV mn