Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-08-07
LONDON TOWER,
OFOLDHORRORS,
MAY SEE KAISER

might be held pending his t1Ial, is
described in the following bulletin
form the National Geographic So
ciety:
palace and prison, once notei al
SO for its menagerie and its pageant
ry, birthplace and death house of
Monarch, scene of hairbreqdta es-
capes and reputed hidden treasure,
CHASTITY in its memories of tortures
and killings and sacred for its mar
tyrs, the Tower of London amply
warrants description as the most an
cient and most poetic pile in Eu-
rope
william the Conqueror gave Lon
don charter but built the White
Tower to show the people how little
that charter may mean. Like the
English constitution the rambling
London Tower of today is a product
of centuries, and not one, but many
towers, now are scattered over some
ID acres. The site had been a fort
ress since Roman times.
'''1o the Middle Tower Elizabeth
came Queen five years after her
Jealous half-sister, Mary, had kept
her there a prisoner The hump
backed Richard III hired three assass-
hs to murder his nephews in Bloody
Tower. Not until years later were
their bones found and taken to West
minister Abbey
Lady Jane Grey, she who had
the birth of Princess. the life of a
SAINT, and the death of a malefactor.'
was beheaded in London Tower. Hen.
ny VIII waited to bear a gun fired
Don White Tower, signal of the ex.
eeution of Anne Boleyn, so he might
marry Jane Seymour next dav. Hen
rvs minister, Thomas Cromwell. sent
htstS of enemies to London Tower to
De butchered until he helped pick
Anne of Cleaves for his much mar
med monarch. but when Henry saw
tLls prospective bride he pronounced
Lel 'a'.Flanders mare and off went
CiomWelPs head with the rest.
Man Last Words
Relieving such stories of rovai |
cruelty are the immortal last
words of the brave me1 and won,
Ell who laid their hands On The axe
maR's block.
God forbid the King shah use any
more such mercy to my friends
laughed Sir Thomas Moore hen told
that Henry VIII had 'mercifully'
consented to let him BE-, behelded
instead of hanged, and to the ex-
eeutloner, as he moved his beard
aside, Ply that should be cut that
has Lot committed treason
lire countess of Salisbury proud
ly refused to lay her aea on the
block because she had committed no
wrong, so that, says an observer,
apologizing for the eXecutioner, he
was constrained to fetch it off SLOW
emily
IF you strike me twice, l can
not promise y uonot to STIR warned
Monmouth. Asked to raise his head
bit Algernon Sidney retorted, Not
until the general resurrection; strike
on Peter inquired Sir Walter
Raleigh. to keep up the spirits of his
attendant, 'Dost thou know of any
plaster to set mans head on again
when it is cut OFF,
Consigned to the Tower for some
13 years Sir Walter set fashion
which made salon out of the palace
prison While he was not attending
his garden, and distilling essence
iron plants, he wrote his quaint
History of the World and there,
too William Penn wrote No Cross,
no Crown not to mention the writ
jngs of the Duke of Orleans and
Sir John Eliot.
"Abcut the main entrance to the
Tower was a menagerie until a hun
dred years ago because Frederick II
of Germany sent Henry III of Eng
land several panthers and Henry die
not know what else to do with them
Later James |, who liked bear bait
ing, added those animals to the zoo
The Warders, Curosities.
S'The warders, known as beef eat
ers,' probably because they once
were fed on rations of meat, from
one of the curiosities for London Wis
itors. They wore Tudor costume
and, like the Swiss body-guard o
the Pope, they keep their ancien
costumes, undisturbed by currents 0
modern fashion.
"Just before midnight the hea
warder an the porter, carrying
bunch of huge keys, go to the guar
room. summon the escort of tn
keys made up of beef eaters an
then proceed tremendously to loo
the great outer gate. The pass wor
is given formally to sentries as tn
procession passes, and in conclusio