Year: 1873

came ana turned me out I was surprised at this.
and not grained, for detest early rising never
Nike to say severe things. but was good deal
tried this time. said did not mind getting up
moderately early, but hated to be called day be-
fore yesterday. However. as was acting in ma
tional capacity and for O country that liked,
stopped grumbIing and we set out grand naval
review is good thing to impress Shah with, but
If he would try getting up at SIX O'Clock in the
morning-but no matter; We started.


THE SUMNER BEAUTY OF ENGLAND.


We took the Dover train and went whistling
along over the housetops at the rate OF fifty miles
an hour and just as smoothly and pleasantly,
too, as If we were in sleigh. One never can
have anything but very vague idea OF what speed
is until he travels over an English railway. Our
'Hightning" expresses are sleepy and indolent in
comparison. We looked into the back windows
of the endless ranks Of houses abreast and below
us, and saw many nomelike little family OF early
birds sitting at their breakfasts. New views and
mighty city seemed to spread further and wider in
the clear morning air than it had ever done be-
fore. There is something awe-inspiring about
the mere look of the figures that express the pop
ulatiOn OF London when one comes to set them
down in good large hand-4,ooo,ooo 1t takes
body's breath away. almost.


We presently left the city behind. We had
started drowsy. but we did not stay so. How could
we, with the brilliant sunshine pouring down, the
balmy wind blowing through the open windows,
and the Garden OF Eden spread all abroads We
swept along through rolling expanses Of growing
grain-not stone or stump to mar their comel
ness, not an unsightly fence or an il-kept hedge
through broad meadows covered with fresh green
grass as clean swept as If broom had been at
work there-Iittle brooks wandering up and down
them, noble trees here and there, cows in the
shade, groves in the distance and church
spires projecting out Of them; and there were the
quaintest old d-fashoned houses set in the midst Of
smooth lawns or partly hiding themselves among
fine Old forest trees; and there was one steep
rooted ancient cottage whose walls all around, and
whose roof, and whose chimneys, were clothed in a
shining mail of ivy leavesl-so thoroughly indeed,
that only one little patch of roof was visible to
prove that the house was not mere house of
leaves, with glass windows in it. Imagine that
dainty little home surrounded by towering shrubs
and bright green grass and oil sorts OF old trees
and then 60 on and try to imagine something
more bewitching.


LANDMARKS OF TIE AGES.


BY and by we passed Rochester, and, sure
enough, right there, on the highest ground in the
town and rising imposingy up from among clus-
tering roofs, was the gray old castle-rooness,
ruined, ragged, the sky beyond showing clear and
blue through the glassless windows, the walls
partly clad with ivy-a time-scarred, weather
beaten old pile but ever SO picturesque and ever
so majestic, too. There 1t was, whole book OF
English history. had read Of Rochester Castle a
thousand times but 1 had never really believed
there was any such building before.


Presently we reached the sea and came to a
stand far out piers and here Dover and
more history The chalk cliffs Of England lowered
UP from the shore and the French coast was
visible. On the talest hill sat Dover
Castle, stately and spacious and superb,
looking just it has always looked any time these
ten or fifteen thousand years-I do not know its
exact age, and it does not matter, anyway.


WICKED DISCRIMINATION.


We stepped aboard the little packet and steamed
away. The sea was perfectly SMOOTH and pain.
fully brilliant in the sunshine. There were no
curiosties in the vessel except the passengers and
placard in French setting forth the rransporta'
tion fares for various kinds of people. The litho-
grapher probably considered that pacard a
triumph. II was printed in green, blue. red,
black and yellow; no individual line in
one color, but the individual letters
we're separately colored. For instance, the
first letter OF a word would be blue,
the next red, the next green, and so on. The
placard looked as il it had the smallpox or some
thing. inquired the artists name and place OF
business, intending 10 hunt him up and kill him
when had time; butno one could tell me. In the
list Of prices first cla,s passengers were set down
at fifteen shillings ard four pence and dead bodies
at one pound ten slillings and eight pence-just
double price That is Belgian morals, suppose.
l never say a harsh thing unless l am greatly
stirred; but in my opinion the man who would
take advantage OF . dead person would do almost
any odious thing. Ipuhish this scandaloas dis
elimination against thsmost helpless class among
us in order that peope intending to die abroad
may come back by soUe other line


osrENDrAToUs INFORMATION.


We skinned over to Ostend in four hours and
went ashore. The first gentleman we saw hap
pened to be the Fag Lieutenant of the neet, and
he told me wnGe me Lively lay, and said she
would sail about skin the morning Heavens and
EARTH He sad he would give my letter to the
proper authority ard so we thanked him and bore
away for the hotd. Bore away is good sailor