The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-16

was pushing and hauling,' seisinE her dress suit case, enaploXing . porter to sarGS s e ass psor cnnk aFS TSerss as
 ter of the. alphabet and each person went to the .hs hrst letter :, of her sur my luggage was soon examined and 1 Ssrs., looking for ali the world like 2 hours we spent seeing Liverpool from the name of trciisyi the, were only body preferred to ride on the outside SO covered with advertisements that I wShaersn wSich dfrecticn a shs @ %as % going. ne o'clock we crossed the Mersey to Berk- shire, the Jersey City of Liverpool. and The next morning our first real sight. seeing began: After we had struggled, through an English Breakfast, coffee,
 to us. and we were left to serve our selves. Everybody begged for water.
 which was brought out reluctantly. as precious as radfum, was forthcom-
 Chester is the mediaeval town of
 can be seen, and the site of the ancient
 was deeply Interested in the old tower
 to which King Cherries I the e. Second ed fs,,
 before the force of Cromwell. East
 gate Street has the honor of being the
 only street in the world with double
 row of shops on each side The shops
 on the second floor were built farther
 back than those on the ground. so that the sidewalks for the upper stories were
 simply wide porch,,ss.; ,,a. we saw the eo,si tai
 where Washington Irving stayed when
 he visited Chester. Five miles over a
 charming English road. bordered by
 sxuh HatdA
 crimson with popies. brought us to
 Hawarden, the summer home of the
 great Gladstone. The Anglomaniacs in
 den Castle. with it's wide meadows and
 soft greens. far ahead of anything in
 the United States, but don't think we
 could compare this richly ouitivated
 beauty of our Berkshire Hills, or, in
 fact, any part of New England. The Chester Cathedral is very handsome and
 tian iron candiesticks, long coveted by
 went on to stratford- on Avon. and at
 shrswsoury we enjoyed tasTSlsslyI SsIi%StsEI
 novelty Tea baskets were brought
 into our compartment, dear little will
 low trays with individual brown stone
 and butter, which can not be surpassed
 anywhere. The bread Is first buttered
 with the butter. that every American
 ssst' n sst so SpeRR sRin tha it ana fals sn cu S amused ourselves with tea enougn
 the next hour to interfere with our
 dinner. which was waiting foiS us at
 Stratford, so that as soon as we had de-
 posted our bags at the Red Horse Inn
 we rushed out to see all we could of
 this shrine of Shakespeare. Almost tSe
 with the usual crowd of enthusiastic
 followers. The b1uff policeman's threats
 and the wild shrieks of Punch seemed
 So in keeping with this quaint Sld a Eng sas-
 that this was not the usual program
 of the evening. Our hotel was queer
 gabled one, all the rooms had name
 Midsammer % Nights DreaIn, and and those
 on either side were Othello and Richard
 the Third. Early tho next morning
 found me at the use in nery wn'cn noom
 shown you with its deep chimney cor
 ner and the little panes of glass where
 so many names have been scratched.
 iyles is nearby. while on one of the cut his name. We next saw Anne roof and lovely English garden, which reminds me that behind the house in which Shakespeare was born Is a gar den in which is cultivated every flower pecialiy daisies, peoples and eglantine. We visited the memorial theatre where the festivals on shakespeare's birthday once acted on the lawn and here Bern
 hardt played Hamlet" not so very long ago. Very near the theater Is the seat where Longfeilow. composed his poem on the Avon and its bard and Lord Covers monument to Shakespeare faces the river near this spot. Not far off Is Trinity Church where the famous entirely restored and is approached by an avenue of superb lime trees. The chancel surrounds the grave. which is easily recognized by the poets own epi- bear to dig the dust enclosed here: blest be the man that spares these stones, and curst be he that moves my bones" To the left of this marble in- scription. which Is not raised. being on a level with the rest of the floor, Is Ben Johnson's. celebrated enlogy for the bust of Shakespeare; It Is not nearly thinlNit Is far more appropriate: Tn wisdom a Nestor in genius a Socrates, in art. a Vireil The earth shrouds guards him" This, a rough translae ton of the Latin at the top, below in the old English script is;/ Stay, pas senger. why goest thou by so fast; read if thou canst whom envious death hath placed within this monument, Shake speare. with whom quick Nature died. whose name dost deck the tomb far writ leaves living art but page to serve his wit" I have never seen anything like the flowers in England; beginning in Stratford we noticed everywhere even in the poorest shops, all the win dows filled with bark boxes and a pro- fusion of brilliant nasturtiums, daisies. larkspurs and geraniums. All the way from Stratford to Warwick. which is only a half hour. we were struck with the fact that the farms had only hedges instead of fences, and that al- though the oaks and elms were not so tall as ours there were three times as many in each field as there would have been in our meadows. At Warwick we went to a typical English inn, the War wick Arms, and again encountered the ter without any sign of even a chilly feeling. Warwick Castle Is almost in the center of the town but so sur by a high wall green with moss you were about to pay a visit to some feudal baron. As we approached the strutted proudly on the smooth green court, and on the old Saxon tower, built in the time of Alfred the Great, fully a dozen rocks looked down on us We entered the hall of the castle and from there passed through six or seven rooms filled with portraits of kings, I former earls of Warwick, and the su- perb gilt, furniture and tapestries of the Norman period. We passed through room after room lined with treasures until we came to the great banquet hall. This Is 1S6 feet from ceiling to dome, the huge rafters are all stone l and almost the entire space of the four spears and old standards. These Nor man knights must have been strong in muscle but not great in stature. for | no suit of mail looked as if it could |