Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-09-30
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.

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ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
fountain is the gift of Phila-
delphian and yearly thousands of
Americans visit the place and pay
their respects to the very cratic and
often times guilty, but always the
able and truly human bard OF
Stratford. the visit to the church
was of interest to me for very
superficial reason I admit. /
wanted to know just which rubbing
of that inscription stone, was a
genuine rubbing discovered that
the larger one is the genu-
line one but discovered
by far the more interesting inscrip-
ton and the one which really is a
tribute to the poet, is seldom copied.
[ had never seen it before. Here it
is, I give the translation of the
Latin
I'm wisdom Nestor, in genius a
Socrates: in art Virgil.
The earth shrouds him, Olympus
guards him. And this,
"Stay passenger. why goest thou
by so fast?
Read if thou canst whom envious
death hast plast within this monu-
ment,
Shakespeare with whom quick
nature dide, whose name doth deck
ye tomb.
Far more than cost, sith all that
he hath writ.
Leaves living art but page to serve
his wit"
The old English spelling makes
the sentences rather confusing but
| it is easily seen the tribute paid to
Shakespeare. The story goes that
the often quoted verse, was hastily
put upon the stone during the night
for fear someone would steal TIE
remains before they were finally and
properly inferred.
The birth place, now given over to
be used as a museum, was full of
interesting reminders of the age of
Shakespeare. The birth-rocm, now
bare Of furniture. was pot wanting in.
names scrubbed on plaster, wood
work and glass. Among other
names were those of Carlyle, Scott
and Browning. Great men some
times have done foolish things. The
difference between these names and
those which you and I may have left
otherwheres, is that these are care
fully protected and are pointed out
as part of the value of the room. In
this connection let me say that at
Hawkshead [ went to the Grammar
School in which Wordsworth was
educated and found carefully pro-
tected by glass, his name carved IN
desk. [ remember very wildly
what happened to me on several oc
casions when I sought to leave my
name thus for future generations on
the desks of various rooms IN the
West side school.
Well, we spent a great day in
Stratford, secured some good pictures
with our Kodak, had terrible lunch
at the Red Horse Inn, sat in the
Washington Irving drawing room,
and finally summoned our carriage
(coachmen being with us) and drove
back to bennington. And now We
know why Americans swear by STRAIT
ford.
After ten days at bennington we
set out for the English lake region
We were booked for the Queens
Hotel, Ambleside, at the head Of
Lake. Let me tell
little of our reception I think Fra
Ebert Hubbard says in one of his
little journeys that the beauty of the
Inn is that at all times and
at any time you may get anything
which you want to eat Had I not
spent four weeks among English
Inns, | might believe the cratic but
Fra. But alas [ must
dissent. We arrived at the Queens
at eight p. M. We were told that
dinner had been served and that
nothing hot could be secured. And
We could not make them change