The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-12-04
BISHOP COLEMAN'S
Lecture at Old Swede's Church.-His Trip
Through Eur0pe--The Queens Jubilee.

| All lDtercstlnB ana instructive lecture
was delivered by Bishop Coleman in the
parish building of Old Swede'. Church, on
Thursday evening. Tho musical part OF
the program was curtailed on account Of
the absence Of Mrs. Pyls. Mr.. Harrison
was also,prevented from singing by the ad.
vice Of his physician. A duet was admir-
ably rendered by tho Misses Eeee and
Weiser-
The Bishop said: Here and thero in
Europe have often made pconle tired in
listening to my discourses, but do not ex-
poet to do so on this OCCASION On my last
trip to Europe We had an enjoyable time
ON board the steamer and when the yoy-
age ended wo parted Us members of one
family.
We were two Sundays on :he waver and
held services three times on each dny. We
also had 4 christening and the mother be-
ing an Englshwolnan. there wero English
and American flags flying. A coincidence
was tlat tho baby was named after the
last three queens of England in succession
Mary Elizabeth Vlcto!ia There were
four other clergymen OF different denoni'
| nations on board
On our arrival in Queenstown we heard
! report that tho weather in Liverpool was
very bad and stormy, hut when we got
there every hing looked Well. Lonion
WAS crowded with people from. AL parts of
the world on account Of the Queens juDl-
lee
Iwnllsed the streets until o'clock in
the morningfor the purpose of studying
The city. There WIS the utmost order in
the worlds iarg',t city and | only saw
about thrro drunken persons, and two OF
those were women. Millions of people
were celebrating he Queens jubilee, and
it was Il genuine outburst Of affection for
their sovereign as they had nothing to
gain from it lko those office hunters we
see at elections.
was invited to the princely residence
of the Baroness Burdctt Coutts, whose
husband is un American, and who takes
her name BARTLETT burdert Coutts. Some.
thing Like seven hundred people saw the
procession from her palace, who had
special Invitations; and one !hng that i'm |
pressed Inc was that she guve he bust |
places to the poorest persons.
tohe also served a COLLATION. to her guests !
and those who CAME from her farms and
othor institutions of her bounty were treat |
cd alike with those who had titles. Her
illumiIntions were the most beautiful and !
tho crowds chcered her to the echo
The Qucen invited the members sof tho
conference 10 st. James Chapel where We
got h bounitul lunch and l was singled
out as leader. The attendants who waited
on us were simply gorgc0usiy dressed IN
their best livery and was afraid to address
Tho Queen Bnd Princess Beatrice came
to visit uE alone in u bnrAuche. The three
colorcd bishops were presented to her and
she leceived them most grnciousy, and
they spoke as plainly and we'll as their
white brethren From what l saw OF the ;
Queen she looked fit for another jubilee.
IL does one good to laugh sometimes, so
turning from grave to gay reminds me of .
Is story about the boy who when he had !
learned that Eve was made from one OF
Adams ribs the first .ilns he WAS sick
he put Ibis hand 10 his side and sail: :
M-mma I'm afraid l am going to have u {
wifs.
We visited Canterbury Cathedral, nota-
Bile as thu place where 81 A Augustine !and.
cd IN 537. Glastonbury Cathedral, which :
is new in ruins is l5) feet longer than ,
WGstmnlstor Abbey. Cardinal Vaughan, | {
the Roman Catholic prelntc, was also pres !
ensrtt With us We wcia presented to their +
I,Nyat 1!iyhneSses, the Dusn aud Duchess q
Of f"lk;th Duchess asked ne where Del /
aware was and if it was near Now York. .
The Duchess Of Teck, to whom l also was
presented and who has since died, was \
very deyout woman. !
took holiday 10 myself In the shape /
of walking tour ON the continent, of .
about 400 miles in three weeks, through x
France and Germany. walked 35 miles 6
one day, and the last hour at tho rate Of n
four miles ! have walked six miles in i
an hour in my younger days. Going y
had II hard time to get lodging for The
night At last got IL In II roum with
several Others. but had bed to myself
ha language spoken was French and the ,
host suve me to understand that he WANT =, ~
sd n wife, ",
! told him that perhaps I could find him -
,ne in America. l carried French die I
al Il
we'll with tho German. Went into II gro H.
,erv store and asked for il pound Of bis -, ~
'llits but tho man shook his head and said c.,'
impossible. although pointed to them on ~
lis shelves | however found out that q
,ad been asking for q milo Of crackers -,
night have gpt Il milo Of bread as the ~
caves which some CT the children werc
arry!1y were taller than themselves.
Iu Hamburg made IL mis- axe. | aslsed
well dressed man if be could speak
He said a lcetle sir he did not
want to lot HE think l made mistake. IN
he people arc very polite and the man "a y
7ho goes into store anu leaves his hat ~
n would be considered u boor. So when su
came back to England | was all the timo on
aEing my hat of. A:y bill of faro at one IN
laco Ia France was: Supper, cold meat,
read and butter; breakfast, eggs, milk, sa
read and butter; two meals and bed 50 III
ants. Through tho French country it Is Sa
. uncommon thing to SEQ woinon doing IN
iens work. ne
In ono place saw four amen pulling llq
iougn ana one man Steering as with -
Drs2s. suppose you Will laugh when l ~
Al you that had to pay ut onc cafe for Ut
OF drinking, rather hard on u temperance ih'
ian. The men get about thrca glasses Of ,
.er for 2l3 cents, ana hey sit down and -,
noke ana talk politics, yet saw very rlu
tile drunkenness. At ono place where l -
I'd msal the landlord snid to me:
II must charge you extra for not drink
I Wlne;' tho reason was because il was 7
! the wine that n'y profit was made. L
his now reminds me of u man hat do
}, hear Of nownlnys-.be drinking man
,"h firm had drinking man who could
, business win the drinking customers
IL not get drunk; but hope he is Of thb
IS s'ill, ;hrie Is room for Improvement
SJmo of the towns through which
.s2d they held market on Sunday, and
one place in front OF the cathedral
There Is u monument erected on tho
llne to tho emperor, william, which
st $5OD,G0O, whore the Ocscl and tho
iine meet, There is still M auimosity Ls
,ween Germany and France. At AlsaCn
nro Is monument of tho two sis er
s.cs, Alsacc and Lorraine, weeping over
, lost France.
It seems tn mo that tho German army is AZ,
tor disciplined than tho French But w,
, French peasantry are still wanting TO
80 it uut with the hated Germans
She Was a Hugger.
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