Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-09-21


5000 new streets end 10000 new
houses are built every year. What
viii the city DO fifty years hence ?
On August 3 we left London for
Stratford-on- Avon, 110 miles away j
the home of Shakespeare. On our
way we stop o couple of hours at
Oxford, one of the great university
towns of England. A carriage drive
at this place gives us bird's-eye
view of the city and it's many insti-
tutions of learning. There are,
believe, i:rty-four colleges in Oxford,
and of course there are thousands of
students there every year. Some of
the college buildings are very vener-
able in their appearance--none of
thsm especially imposing. But here
ne of the great fountain heads of
England's power and prestige in the
world. We were told that there
were in Oxford the week before we
were there 10000 medical students
standing their examinations prior to
entering upon their life work.
Special trains were required to carry
these students away. England is
small only in geography. We drove
by the martyrs monument in Oxford
which was erected to the memory of
the following illustrious triumvirate:
Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer.
We leave Oxford at 2.3O p. m. and
In about half hour pass through
Banbury, place inseparably con-
nected with child literature. We
pass near Rugby and go through
Warwick, but do not stop to see the
castle at the latter place. l regretted
this very much, but we can't see it
all. We reach Stratford- on Avon at
5 p. M, and enter a coach which
awaits nc. We drove out two miles
to Anne Hathaway's house. This is
very old and quaint-looking house
with thatched roof, simple and primi-
overlooking furniture, etc. Anne
Hathaway was Shakespeare's wife
and no doubt the great poet courted
her in this house. We went from
this house to the church at Stratford
In which Shakespeare was buried.
This is a very old church and over
the place in the rock floor where the
renowned bard was buried is an in
scription which ends with a curse
upon the man who removes his bones.
suspect this inscription has kept
the body of Shakespeare from West
minister Abbey. We now go to the
house in which the poet was born
and where he spent his boyhood
days. The house is old and quaint
like that of Anne Hathaway. The
ground floor is made of rocks. The
house is right on the street and there
is beautiful flower garden in the
back yard, containing all the flowers
mentioned in the poets works that
will grow in that climate. We also
saw the grammar school building in
which this man of all time went to
school. 1t is indeed thrilling to walk
over such historic ground. Stratford
is not large place; it has, I sup
pose, about $4,000 people in it. But
it is very clean-looking little city.
Ofcourse, Shakespeare's connection
with the place makes,it what it is to
the world. The public has erected
a beautiful memorial building in the
town, in which the most celebrated
actors of the world render from time
to time Shakespeare's plays. / was
impressed with the literary and
benevolent evidences which saw
that reflected credit on the peol le.
On the attractive public fountain in
one of the main streets were many
quotations from prominent literary
sources, and on one of the horse
, troughs, cut out of solid re ax, saw
this inscription "Be merciful to all
of Gods creatures" / walked over
the bridge that spans the river Avon,
which gently flows through the