The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-28
(Coprisht, Isl,. by A. o. Jacobsen. !,

In the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral,
where Lord wolseley was inferred. the
parish of st. Faith has its cemetery, and
at one time Indicated its ownership by
high ratings. The unknown dead in the
crypt far outnumber the famous, for st.
Paul's as burial place goes back al
most 10 the shadows Of time. Nelson
and wellington dominate the gloomy
| great chamber. 1t il now sixty-one
years since more than a million of his
countrymen stood by while the victor
of Waterloo was carried from the Horse
Guards to his last resting place.
| How slow Britain as nation as a rule
Is In paying the last homage to its
mightiest dead Is illustrated in the We'll
| lington case. A sum of ES0000 was
voted for the funeral expenses, of which
i f60.000 were spent With the balance II
was decided to erect a monument In ST.
Pauls. Two-thirds of this sum went in
the six years pursuit of a sculptor. who
at last was found In the person Of AL
fred Stevens But not until forty years
| after the funeral was the monument
finally erected. Wellington, however.
was one of the fortunate warriors, who
did not lack monuments in his lifetime
| The statue of Achilles, in Hyde Park,
London, Is the memorial. made from cap
tured French guns which was erected
by the women Of England to the MEM
| DRY of Wellington and his soldiers. thirty
years before the great leaders death.
But il Britain delayed forty years in
| the case Of the great Iron Duke, il was
| not quite so unsentimental. and moved
rapidly in finding a monument for Nelson.
| Above the great sea fighters tomb in the
crypt Is black and white sarccphagus
made nearly four centuries ago by Bene-
detto da Ravanza for Cardinal Wolsey,
who intended it for his own use. But the
Abbot Of Leicester and his monks alone
know where the great Cardinal lies buried
| and the noble sarcophagus went begging
for an occupant. Perhaps only a practical
| set like the British mortuary keepers
| would have thought of converting VOL
| sey's tomb into one for Nelson. All the
change they had to make was to place
a viscounts coronet where there had
been the hat Of the disgraced and broken
| hearted prelate.
The solemn ceremonial at st. Pauls at
| Lord Wolesley's burial contrasts strongly
| with the indecorum of bygone days on
| such occasions, when II was quite impos-
| sible to secure reverence even at funerals
| of great men, So bad, in fact did the be-
| havior of the people become that at the
end OF the fourteenth century Bishop
Braybroke held out a threat of the great
er communication because in the ca
thedral ''men as we'll as women, not only
on common days, but especially on fes-
rivals, expose their wares as II II were
public market, buying and selling with
out reverence for the holy place" Men
were seen playing at ball or other I'M
seemly games within and without the
| church. breaking the beautiful and costly
painted windows, to the amaZement Of
strangers and visitors.
| Up to 1850 such dissertation must have
been going on. for the fire which de-
stroyed the spire of the cathedral in
that year was attributed to divine anger.
Golfers, with their sacks of coal. and
butchers boys, with their loads of meat.
made the interior of the fine cathedral a
| short cut on the way to their customers.
The navy and aisles were like public
| highway. There was swearing, jostling.
biting of thumbs, and what not to beget
quarrels. Even the choir boys, during
the service, would make a dash into the
| body of the church TO collect fines for
the wen.ring of spurs, which was pro-
hibited.
| OF course. there are a great many
anecdotes afloat now since Wolseley, the
great warrior, has answered his last call.
Once, while in charge of tine advance
guard, close to the redoubts at Sevasta-
pol he attributed the success of many
| of the engagements in the Crimean war
to the simple expcdient of shouting. AT
that time he had just about twenty-five
men when he attacked. All were shout
ing continuously to make the enemy be-
| lieve that there was a large force ad-
vancing, and some could not speak for
| week after. Firing was done from the
shelter of mass of dead bodies, and he
| told the bugler to blow his loudest while
the men were shouting. The trick. by
the way, is old as the hills. and X shows
that wolseley had read his Homer, for
the heroes of the 1liad were Doe
agathos' tgood in shouting).
| But Lord Wolseley was possessed of
courage worthy of his brilliant brain
power. His body was mauled and smashed
many times. In Burmah gingall bull
| let tore his thigh in shreds. In the
| Crimea a shell smashed his face and
! blinded one eye. Yet no man who ever
| rode beside him would have imagined
| that he had only half the power and
sight left. Possibly the only undignified
retreat ever made by Lord Wellesley oc-
| CURED in India in 1858. After a very
| long and dusty march in the hot season
he sought the water of one Of the tanks
surrounded with fine groves of trees
| the gifts to the traveller in India by
the pious and charitable. While he was
| rolling about in luxurious enjoyment a
yellow snake shook its forked tongue
close to his face, and almst paralyzed
with terror he struck out for the side of
| the bank as fast as if-to use his own
words-he were pursued by a whole ZOO
| logical garden full of hostile and man.
devouring beasts and reptiles" Lord
Wolseley confessed to having more than
| most men. "a loathing horror and indie
scribable repugnance to all sorts of rep
tiles which he was never able to over
come, and fate in life would still fly
| even from the harmless toad