Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-10-02


bey," says the professor. He believes,
however, that he has invented a
wash that will put stop to this sort
of decomposition so far as Westmin-
ster Abbey is concerned.
BOW CHURcH's LEANING TOWER.
In more immediate danger than
either st. Paul's or Westminster Alb
bey is the lovely tower of famous
Bow Church, within the sound of
whose bells, says sacred tradition,
you must be born if you are to be o
true Cockney. Of course st. Paul's
is always called Wren's masterpiece,
and for bigness and grandeur it is
unsurpassed in London, but no one
in his right mind ever called St.
Paul's "lovely." On tho other hand,
there really isn't any other word than
"lovely" to apply to Bow Tower,
which shows how varied was Wren's
genius for he built little Bow
Church as well as big St. Paul's.
The fact that both of them are
shaky now might further indicate
that the great architect busted him
self more about the looks of his edi-
fees than he did about their founda-
tions.
AT any rate the delicate, slender
tower of St. Mary le Bow, to give
the church it's full name, is trying to
emulate the leaning Tower of Pisa,
for it is now something like nine
inches out of plumb, and, although
it has been bolstcred up in every way
that present day architects could.
devise, it is feared that the tremcn-
dous traffic on Cheapside, the rat
tling of trains underneath, and the
remorseless gnawing of time and of
the London atmosphere are going to
make it necessary to pull this tower
down, to keep it from toppling. 1t
is 235 feet high and surmounted by
a famous old nine-foot dragon.
SCARE ABOUT ST. BRIDES.
The latest scare concerns another
one of Wren's churches-St. Brides.
1t is most interesting and attractive
old church, and yet half the tourists
who have come to London have
missed it because it has been tucked
in behind swarm of other build
ings down in Fleet street, where
land is 80 precious that a golden sov-
ereign would not buy as much ground
as it covers. Street improvements
have been going on down there this
year, however, and the old yellow
Punch Office and number of other
buildings that hid St. Brides from
the view of the casual passer-by are
being torn down, 80 that now you
can get view of the church that
was denied to DR.. johnson and also
to Samuel Richardson, who lived
under the shadow of the church, and
whose bones rest to-day near the
central aisle. Milton once lived in
the church yard, and--to make a
most terrifying literary lcap-the
Rev. Mr.. Hawkins, Anthony Hopes
father, is rector Of the church to. day.
There seems to be some conflict of
opinion about the seriousness of the
cracks that have appeared in St.
Brides steeple, but anyway the
cracks are there and have grown 80
much larger of late that the church
authorities became alarmed and are
having an expert examination made
to make sure that the old pagoda-
like structure is not goi to drop
down on their heads some fine Sun
day morning.
To-day scaffolding encirclcd the
steeple at height of some 200 feet
from the ground, and throngs on
Fleet street were straining their
necks to see what was going on up
there.
Another of the city's most famous
sights is St. Giles, Cripplegate, a
church that was built over hun
dred years before Columbus discov-
cred America. The recent removal
of some ancient buildings adjoining
this quaint place of worship has SO
disfigured and weakened the walls on
one side that it is thought likely the
church will have to be largely rebuilt
before it can be considered safe.
Milton lies buried in this church and
Oliver Cromwell was married there.
EVEN LANDsEER's LIONS WERE GOING
There is no telling just how long
it will take for London to get eaten
up by its own atmosphere, but ono
can judge of the remorsclcssness of
the process by the fact that even
Lanseer's bronze lions ut the base of
Nelson's monument on Trafalgar
square-the lions that typify the
strength and solidity of the British