The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-08-22

the sure verdict Of history may always he aw.,.
ed with calm CONFERENCE.-THE as the no,..
needle. temporarily disturbed by some unrer.,
attraction. will yet inevitably return and swing
true again to the unchanging north star N,ne
years ago a great assemblage met here again ana
n life-size monument OF Cromwell was unveiled
tho monument honored with n place within M
enclosed court Of Parliament-and n mighty ma.
ton uncovered It's head in reverence to Crom.
wells memory.
Carlyle Is another one of my heroes. and ( was
glad TO go out to Chelsea and see the house
where he died-just AS I was glad to soc a typical
letter of his regrctting his seemingly fruitless
search for a publisher for "Sartor Resartus" and
referring to some man as provoking his admira-
ton because he Is a man. a real man. and not
a mere clothcs-hor~c.'
Sunday morning / was glad to see John NIL.
toms old church. his grave IL In the chancel. and
this. by the way. IN the same church in which
oliver Cromwell was married. We also went 10
he Wesley Chapel where John Wesley. the grca,
founder OF Methodism. preached In the later years
nt his life. assisted by his famous poet-brother,
Charles Wesley. the author OF sd many familiar
hymns. John Wesley died In the little house be-
side the chapel. aud his mother. Susannah Wesley
mother of seventeen or nineteen children. | have
forgotten which number) Is buried in the Bunh!ii
burying grounds just across the way. az Is also
iaaac Watts, no less famous than John Wesley as
a hymn writer. John Bunyan. author OF PHI
grIm's Progress and Daniel Defoc. whose Rob
snaon Crusoc' has been tn. delight of every gen.
Grafton of boys that has grown up since It's pub
iication.
London la full OF JUS, such historic places. No,
lar from st. Jamss's palace we saw tho house
~h.rc byron woke mp to find himself famous
III IhefNaA VIZ "A the hnme4 nf Eenrgg Elliot
Dante Gabriel Rosset,i. aud the artist Turner;
n.ar Whitehall IL tho place where Charles II. was
och-adcd. tho house given TO the Duke OF Wei
.ingsnn by the English people Gus, AZ Amer-
cans gave a house TO Admiral Dewey IL pointed
out. In tho crypt Of st. Paul's are the tombs OF
Wellington and Nelson: and In Westminster ABB
hey. chauccr Dickens. Tennyson. Browning.
rhaekcray. William Pit, VIM. r. Gladstone. be-
sides numerous English monarchs. including
Quc-n Elizabeth. Queen Mary. and tho royal Ed
wards and Hcnrys. In Westminster Abbey We
al@n saw the coronation chairs In which all the
Kings of England have been crowned here since
Edward l.. and In the Bloody Tower the crown Of
III. King and Queen. sparkling masses of the
cos,licst jewels. are shown TO tho public.
Writing this much. however. has only servd
10 convince me OF tho impossibility OF giving
within tho limits OF a newspaper article an ade-
duaic description OF tho many towns and places
here In which mighty men have wrought mighty
dss'ds. blessing not only the little island Of Great
britain. but tho whole world In fact. and especial
~ the great English-speaking peoples OF the Unit
rd Sta,ca and Canada. There In the beautiful 1T
Ito town of Stratford-on-Avon where We saw the
humble cottage In which Shakespeare was born
and his burial place In the church whose ap-
proach IL such IL beautiful avenue Of trees: there
is Oxford with It's famous University. and Its rich
heritage Of splendid amcs-nlackstone Raleigh.
Wesley. Samuel johnson. Wellington. Peel. Rus
Kin. and many others: there Ii Chester with Its
famous Cathedral and It's nearly nineteen hun
bred years OF known history. Roman ruins here
attn telling the story of It's beginnings as a Ro-
man camp ~sIxty-one years after tho birth OF