Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-09-06

smut OH all Ine ugnC from Cne SGreeIS
and the sun would never get whack
at the streets. Hence, there are no
architectural wonders uptown and the
place seems quite as humble as
Quaker
That night we went to an English
comedy-''Y' Never Know, " Know"
At home we say the English have no
sense of humor. They have one all
right, but it is of a different make
than ours. It's the kind of humor
that makes them sort of litter, and
once in awhile they will get real en-
thusiastic and burst out with an al
most audible guffaw. Most of the
time they were laughing l was try
ing to figure out what they were
laughing at, and then something that
would strike me as funny would in
veigle me to indulge in a little nor
NAL laughter, and nine times out of
ten it would be a solo laugh; case
of laugh and you laugh alone. If it
had been real, live, American COM
edy the whole bunch Of US would have
been thrown out for disorder-it was
just fair, so we confined ourselves 20
chuckles mostly. After the show, it
was almost Knockout to go out on
the streets and find that everything
was dark, instead of in the lighted
state of midnight gaiety that you find
at home in almost any place; and yet
only 10 o'clock. The Eagle Hut, big
Y. M. c. A, especially for Americans,
was all booked by the middle of the
afternoon, SO we had to stay in no
tel, and mad hunt it was to find one
that would suit our modest pocket
books, and at the same time our
tastes.
The next morning there was no
reveille. We took our good old beau
ty sleep with al feeling that we were
| slipping something over on the gov
ernment which usually raises a row
if you don't get up at the appointed
hour. The morning train for Scot
land didn't wait for US, so we did not
catch one until Z that night. In the
meantime we went to the Tower of
London and to st. PauPs Cathedral,
and Hyde Park. The old tower was
some affair Any one who has served
in the English army for 81 years is
privileged to lead the easy life of
guide and guard in the kings service;
but it looks like the most monotonous
job in the world to me. The differ
ence between the Yank and the Eng
lishman is here striking: The Yank
would go to Jail rather than take
such a job in a kings service, and an
Englishman will stay in jail to be in
his service. They had rig on that
is usually worn by ring-master in
a circus-Barnum and Bailey would
get a lot of valuable tips for new
costumes if they came over here for
awhile. I did get a lot of literature
on the old secrets of the place and
a complete history and description Of
it all, but all the stuff I got was lost
when we got to camp again. 1t must
have taken generations and hundreds
of lives to build the old fortress, and
it really is most impressive place
as well as most impregnable strong
hold in the pre- artillery times. On
one side it had the Thames as a haz-
ard and all around the thing is a
broad moat (now dry) and even after
any one did cross these barriers, he
had to puncture about eight feet of
solid stone work. In the later days
of usage, the English appreciated the
fact that it was just as hard to get
out of the place as it was to get into
it, and they used to imprison all their
: victims there. We saw the little cell
where Sir Walter Raleigh was con-
fined after he fell out of grace-a
little cupboard, hardly large enough
for him to stretch out in. When ne
got pretty stiff they let him have a
IF oh fan rI1ov.
he could look about 20 feet on all
e sides of him, and they kept him there
e for 20 years before deciding to end
: his misery. They. played pretty rough
a in those days and their punishments
t displayed just little more mean
4 ness than even the Germans display
2 now. We went, through the Bloody
: Tower and saw some of the neat de-
r vices they used to get secrets out OF
e fellow = racks and thumbscrews
i etc. They had a nice little chopping
a block, too, with a huge meat cleaver
Y The top of the thing was only g
: couple of inches across, so man hac
: to be pretty clever with his axe ol
il he wouldn't cut anything off but ar
g ear or so Henry VIII. used to bring
t his wives into this tower when he got
Il tired of them, and thus did away
: with all the inconvenience of di
e vorce. They weren't quite so SLOW
o in those days, after all; today it take:
s months or years to cut off your wife,
:. allowance or break relations with her
p a couple of hundred years ago the!
d were twice as efficient and thorough
:, and cut off her head and comp etel.
IL .rrlp cS&H. lr1
% We also saw the room where Queer
IS Mary of the Scots was entertaine'
: SO long by Queen Elizabeth until Lii
= finally got tired of Mary and had he
l. strung up.
/ Next we got into St. Paul's Cathe
d dral. The dome of this building wa
le really an architectural feat. Tn
$ whole building seems a whispering
= gallery, so perfectly is everything
constructed. If you got a real liv
1t minstrel group to working In there
S deaf man would go crazy if he ha
m cotton in his ears. This place wa
ID elaborate in such big, clumsy way
a all built in a combination Norma
S and Roman design, that it almos
S makes one giddy to stand in the cen
le ter of the building and look arounC
a We climbed to the top of the dome
e. it takes a second to say it, but almos
70 half-hour to do it without training
st and allowing for the number of time
le you get lost on blind passage.
to takes 652 steps to get to the top, an
n every one of them goes up, too.
n actually asked Rand if my hair wa
gray when we made the summit. I
a. the top of the dome there is an oil
10 man who makes living whispering
IN You get on one side and he stays o
I'd the other and whispers, and althoug
il there were stone masons cuttin
j. stone down in the hold, we could hea