Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1905-06-15
THE OLD W|NDM|LLS
PICTURESQUE FEATURE OF THE
LANDSCAPE DISAPPEARING.
Modern Type Common in This coun
try Origin Of Old windmills
unknorn-Until Recently
Numbers in England

In this new land Of ours we are
more or less familiar with the big
/ arms and tall ladders OF wind
pumps. and. though re scarcely dare
acknozledse 10. ~ have ever thought
them Of certain picturesqueness- Trav-
eled friends speak with superiority Of
the real thing ia Holland. of the
occasional ancient landmarks re-
naming in England % the ancient OF
days In the east
An interesting article in Country
Life (,he English periodieaD tells how
these reminders % a different order
OF things are fading from the English
landscape. ant the writer speaks re-
gretfuliy " the DISAPPEARANCE. The
loss to country landscape by the grad
ual decay AMI disappearance Of these
landmarks j. greatly TO be deplored-
II almost looks A. II the winds had
ceased to bior when places are revis-
tied after - years absence and all the
fine twisting wiudmiIls have dissp-
peared There Is only one left round
London where formerly there we're
dozens. especially on the Hampstead
Heights. while Cornhin In the City
only marks By name where the bish-
ops windmill stood Formerly the
sens we're full Of them for pumping
purposes. while Sunois and Norfolk.
great vheat-groving counties. were
studded with their familiar outlines on
every rounded hill They we're stiuu-
lafing features in the landscape. not
only because Of their size and the
pretty jaunty little fier-vane< With
9hesr floats painted blue and SCARLET.
that turned the tops Of the big. lower
built brick mills automatically 70 trim
the sails TO the wind as IL shifted. but
because too. Of the force and swift.
motion and sense o; power inspired by
When a high steady wind was blowing
the rush CT the great arms. the rattle
OF the louvres. the crezking OF the
great pin that held on the sails. the
roar and crush and shake Of the mill
stones inside. we're exciting to the ears
Of gruvn-upS and a source of fearful
JOY to all children There we're awful
tales Of bad boys and girls who tried
TO touch the sails as they swept BY on
their downward track. and were
<hiried aloft by them. while to climb
the foury stairs and peep into the
1oury mill itself. was more than the
hardest boy dare do. 50 sacred did the
miliers tvho were usually sulky fel-
lows. owing 10 their life apart from
the world in the mill chambersD deem
their dirty temple O. Ceres
In England there are three types of
rindmills. and no man dare say
whence came the first Whenever they
appeared they must have caused the
hearts Of the women to rejoice. for in
prehistoric England. as Is evidenced
BY stone querns found near ancient
dwellings the household meal must
have been ground daily in zrsfuous
fashion and doubtless ground by xorn-
en- In the east today ~. and the
meal made ready fer use in the ancient
way. two women grinding n the min.
But to return to tie introduction Of the
windmill 10 England Some say the
Crusaders brought over the Izhor-szx-
ing and Ingenious machinery. bur care
fal Observers refute this BY poirtinS
70 the fact that the Crusaders did no,
get to Palestine untl the commence
nsnt Of the fw-if'h century. xhfe
there exi<: English records for me
eleventh century concerning ai<put~.a
titles to si1dmiiis showing conclusive.
y that the Crusaders did rot hriuz
along With TIE tholssaa and one i'm
proveneniS sFrribufed 70 them. the
nrst Windmill 10 England. Dad tAs
ssnanS give them 70 TIE B-sroas. Ia