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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1885)
J RUN IE JUNE IN KUKOPE. Tlie Picture Gallery of lho Duko of Westminster Windsor Castln and Its ijiirronndiugs. 3toke l'ogls, Where dray, Author of "Elf cy In i Country Churchyard," Is Uurlcil. Tfc Jt'sort of ShftkcspfPr ami Dr. John, sfin's House.- London, July 27. One of tho in teresting events of our stay in London has been avisit to the Dnko of West minster's Gallery, one of tho finest private galleries, if not tho finest in London. Tho Duke of Westminster is very hospitable and very public-spirited. He eives his private riding sciiool for bazarits and opens his magnificent suito of rccoption rooms, called his "gallery," and filled with admirablo works o"f art of every description as well as pictures, lor concerts, for charitable purposes, and at least throo months in tho year to holdors of tick ets, who aro privileged to oxtond tho courtesy to friends. Tho kindness is perfectly free and untrammelled, ser vants aro not allowed to receive fees, and when our party arrived thoro, Hfteen minutes in advance of tho tiuio ten a. m. of opening, and unac- cotupnnied by our guarantee, Mrs. Felix Mosohclos, who was not duo till fifteen minutes later, wo wero politely recoived and allowed tho entree at onco. To describe tho interesting pictures, or merely catalogue them, would require more than tho spaco reserved for this letter, so I shall only indicate a few of the most striking fea tures. One of thoso is tho magnifi cent portrait of Mrs. Siddons by Sir Joshua Reynolds, which contains his namo inscribed in the hem of her robo and by which ho said ho was willing to bo judged and his namo carried down to posterity. Another is tho "Bluo I5oy," a liguro of a graceful youth in bluo page eostunio, painted by Gains borough in answer to u challongo by Sir Joshua Remolds, who insisted that bluo as a color did not supply an artistic medium to tho painter. Tho picture triumphantly rofutes this idea. A wonderful small picturo is Murillo's sleeping infant Christ, and a remark able one Raphael's visit of Elizabeth to Mary tho mother of tho Savior. Thero aro numerous examples of Claude Lorraine, I'ousseirand Rubens, and a curious portrait of Van Dyck, by himself, holding in his hand a sun flower. This picturo certainly relioves Oscar Wilde from tho opinion of ori ginating tho decorative and symbolic use of tin's high-colored emblem. A crystal clock with largo disc of bril liants, a cabinet composed entirely of onyx and gold and exquisite old china, a stand of raro woods inlaid with pearl or ebony, aro among tho hun dreds of other beautiful and raro ob jects. It was noticed particularly that small articles in daily use lay about in some of lho rooms, such as books, with the small asos of llowers and the crystal dishes of roses and maid enhair forns, or swcot-smelling carna tions, forgot-mo-nots and mignonette. Anotlior memorablo occasion was our visit to Windsor and Stoko Pogis, tho latter a littlo villaso iivo miles from Windsor, only interesting as be ing the secno of Gray's "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" and the resting place of tho author. Windsor is too well known to need lengthy descrip tionits towors of York and Lan caster, its "round" towor, its battle ments and terraces, aro all historic. The queen occupies but a small por tion of the south front of tho massivo pile of stone, and as she was in rcsi- Winoso'h CfuC donee, tho Marquis and Marchionoss of Salisburj on a vis,it, and tiio Duch ess of Took expected by tho "1:10 train," wo wero not invited to pro long our stay. Wo saw tho Queen, however, antt tho Princess Beatrice as they drove across tho inner court in a low' phaeton, which ono of tho young ladies of our party thought not half so liandsomo as our own, on thoir way to Frogmore, or on their return I forgot which, and it doos not matter. Frog iiioro is where tho Prince Consort's mausoleum is erected, a picturo of which is presented below, rind is fre quently risitod by tho Quoun. It was rathor touching to seo tho ro apeet with which a gray-haired and roverend look ng gentleman, with his nice wifo and sweet-looking daughter, watchod tho approach of tho Qucon. "Not so much, as ho afterwards re marked, when ho mot his family party on the North Terraeo, "bocuuso she is the Queen, as because fho 1ms boon an Mxtunplnry' wdo ami mother--has brought up hor sons and daughters to perform their duty and oxoroisud au inHiitinow' for good upon tho whole nation." Tho North Torraoo, tho eUiblo and SU George' Chanel aro onon Ihu publlo ut certain hours evury day in tho week hut ono -and tiio (lnuit Park mid ground in. ji'j Jui,' the Lout Walk," oyuu when d: a 1 77. b- P-xt-: VM-vifffii tho Queen is at Windsor, as aro all "Crown" properties and residonco so it Is easy to see how strongly at tached sho "must be to her one own and only homo of Osborne. Tho North Terrace coram nils tho widest view of any within tho walls of tho castle. It looks out upon Eaton College and its surrounding neighborhood, and down into a wooded ravine, which is a tan glo of lu.turi.int greenery, intersected with lovely wnlks and furnished with resting places beneath tho lino old trcos. St. George's Chapel contains tho tombs of some of those Englishmen who havo devoted their lives to tho sorvico of tho Crown, and notably tho mm fi pfeSSl PtfMCfSS CHWIOVrcS CcxotipH. cenotaph, dedicated to tho memory of tho unfortunate Princess Charlotte, famous for its veiled figures of weep ing women. In this Chapel have been celebrated all the royal marriages, and there is groat discontent among the members of the household at Windsor boeauso Whippingham Church was pre ferred by tho Princess Beatrice for her nuptials with Prince Henry of Button borg. "Whippingham Church," said tho young oicorono, who escorted us around tho stables, "won't 'old 300 people, and thoy can't honlortniu as many as that at Ilosbornc, but there's no accounting for tastes." Tho bay horses, ho explained, wero for "Ministers and such," when thoy came to visit tho Queen; lho cream colored hordes for "royalties." Two beautiful black mountain ponies aro kept for service at Balmoral. Ho oninod. also, rather significantly, that thoQuoen would not lose much of tho ' society of tho Princess Beatrico after her marriago, but would onlvgain I that of tho Prince, her husband", who ! is a nice, rather Moinaguish looking ' voting fellow. Leaving Windsor, we drove directly down the "long walk," ' lined on either side with noblo trees sot so thickly that a completo wall j hundreds of feet high islorined, which ' givo cool shado on tho hottest day; I" . lift i -I At past too "mouoi ' iarm, inrougu mo great park, over tho "Victoria" and "Albert" bridgo to quaint "old Wind sor" and out to Eaton and Eaton School, where tho boys wero onjoying thoir noon recess in tho oriokotground or hastening back in troops to tho af ternoon recitations. Tho rido to Stoko Pogis is lovoly, through quiet lanes, lined with trees or thrifty hedgerows, and as wo had not time to stop anywhero for luncheon we im proved "tho occasion by laying in a storo of tho great, delicious English strawberries and current bun0, which wo lunched upon with appetito and shared with our driver. Tho most conspicuous objects upon tho way wero tho carved stone lions at tho ontranco of the grounds and park, 1,000 acres in extent, of a lino country house, onco intended as a homo for tho Prineo of Wales, now owned and occupied by (according to our coachman) "Coleman's Mustard." This condi ment is placarded in largo letters throughout England, and we woro quite glad to find out that its propriotor had not only a local habitation but so sumptuous a ono. &taam i1iugiiia,'i(!jfU! Tho quiet graveyard at Stoko Pogis is d sligured by an imposing monu ment in shocking bad tasto which somo man with more monoy than braiu3 was permitted to orect, but which stands thero quito usoIoxk a monument of bis own stupidity for tho collective sonso of tho people would not permit tho remains of the poet or the simple inscription on tho wall of tho church to bo disturbed to satisfy tho vulgar dosiro for rolloctod glory of ono individual. So tho poet still' reposes in peace by tho sido of his mother under the old lateral tomb stones, and the daisies and buttercups grow up about him and tho ivy clings green about, tho walls of tho littlo church that ho loved and in tho shad ow of which ho rests. "Gray's Elegy is ono of tho perfect pooins in tho En glish laniruairo. Its tono, sentiment I mill Im.'iiriiri' iirnnll in lmifOll. ami arc unmarrbd by a sinirlo Haw in language or construction. It was formerly re quired of every ohild in English schools that thoy Bhotild ncquiro this poem by memory; and It says something for tho literary tasto of some American schools to flay that thoy make this ex quisite work a principal lesson in En glif.li literature; tho poem iUolf, be it undortdood, not somebody's talk about it and ltd author and hlsauteofldents, of which 30 muoli of our present day "literature" U composed. Thtt hint day of our stay In London oulljidod all previous experiences. Wn -mrto i went with an American friend, long res-dent abroad, to lunch at tho old "Cheshire Cheese" tavern. Winn Oftlco Citiit. Fleet street, the resort ot John sun, and even Snakespearo. whero tho old timbered doors, the settees, and nreplaees the pewter mugs and spoons, and leaded dianiond-puncd windows lemaiii, where you ran s:t in tho very pot where the'tainous ohPdnetor took Ins pint of home brewed and Boswoll got oil' his quaintest epigram: Kailh lias tin liml tor lamia town, I No i tow ii n hulls . or liiuuc a lonl, like tills. Tho authorship of this is unknown and may have been Boswell himself. Dr. Samuel Johnson's own house with historic inscription is just around 1 I LA iii.im K'iii' fil IW , the corner in Gough Square a small court rathor than square, and there is a triangle of courts and alloys and "yards" and narrow lanes and old cheap houses in the locality, so that it is dillieult for even a London cabman to find tho o.vnct spot. But onco found there is no mistaking it. Sala and others havo described it, and an inscription by tho door announces that it was rebuilt in 10('7. It is still famous as over for its "rumpsteak pudding," which is compounded of a crust mado with snot, fresli cut steak, mushrooms, an oyster or two, a famous sauce piquento and a littlo pounded hi -euit or Hour; for its Wulsh rabbit stowed with ale; for its stupend ous chops, which must oo cut from sheep grown on purpose: am it mus tard and bread and chocs- Et and its habitues stick to tho loi rihy pipes, sovoral of which wo brought away; and our admiration of tho great Christmas bowl in which tho rump steak pudding is mado so won upon the presiding genius of tho kitchen, which wo wero allowed to inspect, that siio gavo us a small, square tin a square jelly cako tin in immature as tho veritable (with a twinkle) self same little tin in wlrch Johnson had his clieoso stowed. Joko or not, tho "old Cliesiro cheese" is an interesting and curious fact. And whether Shake spoaro visited hero or not, Goldsmith and Voltaire, Pope, Polingbroke and Congrevo, as well as rare lien Jouson andliis talky biographer, wero certain ly frequent guests. An old piny, now in a well-known library in Edinburgh, contains tho following references to this famous resort: "Come to tho cheese, good friends, come to the cheese. There I'll cimnpe tlmt thou shalt quickly And The creuture eouifoitB that thou ntcd'bt bo much. Thy body's fnmlslird first for wnnt of sack; And next for lack of something good to eat. llasle to the cheeec, good friends, haste to the cheese." A second mention lu the same work is to the following effect : "Heaven hlees tho cheeso and all its goodly fare; I would to Jove J could co dally there. Then 1111 n bumper up my good fr end, plcaso; May fortune over blets the 'Cheshire chcete.'" The loft hand room upon cntormjr tho "Cheshire," and tho tablo at the right, with tho wooden settle on ono sido and tho window at tho end, was tho table occupied by Johnson and his friends almost uniformly. This tablo and tho loom are as Johnson and his friends left them in their time. John son's seat was at the end, his back to the window; Goldsmith sat at his loft hand. The latter is buried on tho opposite sido of Fleet street from the Choose, in Templo Churchyard. The following is tho inscription upon the stone: ; lleic I.Irs " ; Ol.IVIiH (iol.DSMITH. ; ; I!o'ii 10th of November. 172-S. ; ; Died 4th or April, 1771. ; Goldsmith, it is said, lived and died at 2 Brick Court Temple, in tlio same building where Blackstono wrote his Commentaries. Jennie Junk. Copyrighted, 1885, by G. W. Hannn. Jlarrying ior Money. I had a conversation recently with a very clover and attractivo New York lad3', who, among other misfortunes, was nlllictcd with 2,000,000. She said siio would never marry, because she would not bolievo that any man wanted hor for any other reason than her gold. "And what," I asked, "do you lose therobyP If a gentleman takes you bocnuso you aro fo pretty, tho small-pox, a fall from a horse, any accident may destroy your beauty, and whoro will his lovo bo if it is for that reason only ho took you? If an other ono Jlls" in lovo with you bo eauso you aro so fresh, ho young, so lively, time is safo to destroy all that, and your hold on hhn is lost. But if ho takes you for your money, you need only bownro of dangerous specula tions, and you will always keep tho chnrni that brought him to your feet, and you have nothing to fear." "That is ono way of looking at it," she said; and so completely did sho embrace my opinion that bnroly a yoar after I recoived an invitation to her wedding with an English nobleman.- Temple liar. Jamei I). FUh, of the defuutt Marine tank U employed lu tho ehoe department of tliu xiiiluititlary, Jn marching to and from hi work lie Is not forcrd Into the common rnk, but la permitted to walk alone. 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Jluop: (pi jam (tm 1 1 p.iiipuuitf jo iiOjjnupoJjii otp ii I ijud pijHoonii8 puu njpau uu unuj jaui oq.u Kjoipo puu vjoouojd oqj, tJijii, til u i)(3u0 l ii iriuioN wtx ajj uip 2UdiJy HOO'IO.O linO.i'AIK'iAVI A 'IT.Ol'irAI, TOlt.V.UIO. An Kx Narnl Oftlrcr'a Attnnn of Ills Kx- liorlciirc In n .Ih iip! Tj'iihoon. "The tornado of Monday last was u vivid illustration (j what the wind cfti do when it eels a irood rcadv on," (aid John B. Kobinsou, member of assembly from Delaware county and for eleven jejirs an ollicer in tho United States navy. "I wan over yes tenia v tosec the ell'ects of Hie blow in Cainiien. and the destruction is simi lar to that caused by a htirrknu In the tropics, or an Hast India typhoon. No one can ever believe the wind could exert such unearthly force until ho lias experienced it himself. 1 .was in a typhoon once on the Uth day of August, 1871, in the United States storcship Idaho, in Yokolioma harbor, Japan. I never want another such experience. We had had a long spell of intensely hot weather. The day before tho typhoon part of the 10tli British regiment and royal marines, eehanged to go home, were transferr ed to a transport, and to moid tho heat moved in theeaily morning. Five of the men were sun-truek when tho sun was not three degrees high. We had about twenty-four hour.' notice of the coining of the typhoon by the fall of tho barometer, tho shifting of tho wind, and increasing moisture of the atmosphere. A few hours before tho center of the storm passed, the sky became tilled with inky black clouds, gyrating around in the most confused manner; tho wind blew a steadily-iu-ereasing gale, finally, as the storm center was on us, assuming hurricane violence. "1 was navigating ollicer, and pnrl of my duty was to watch the barome ter and sympsiosoinotcr, which I mark ed every'ten and live minutes. Tho mercury fell in regular jumps toward the last, as if tho bottom was out of the tube, halting at 27.10. Tor the half hour proceeding this the situation was perfectly awful. Wo woro at anchor in the harbor, the two host bowers down and veered to ninety fathoms of chain on each. The bar ber was full of craft, lariro and small. Admiral Kopjiol's llagship, a Clyde built steamer, was on ono sido of us, the l'acilio Mail steamer America, Capt. Warsaw, on the other, and a Norwegian bark near astern. Tho steamers kept full head of steam on and could ease up thoir cables. Our vessel and the other sailing craft had to trust to their cables. " The danger of fouling was immi nent, the bark drifted all around us, fortunately not striking. Had sho done so both vessels would havo boon ground to pieces. The wind at its lioight was simply indescribable, tho noise like that of ten thousand devils yelling in the air. Then was no sua on while tho wind blow at its greatest velocity, as it cut tho tops oil' the waves like a knife and tho air was lilled with blinding salt mist. Wo could not show our hands above tho rail. To look to windward or hold your head up against the wind was impossible. When the baroniotor ceased falling tho wind fell and u dead calm, awiul in in its stillness, succeeded for about fifteen minutes. Wo were then in tho vortex of tho storm and, as wo after ward calculated, four miles from tho actual center. As tho wind lulled the sea rose and came piling in the harbor in tumultuous waves, running in all directions, toppling up over our decks and lilling them with tons of water. Our hatches wore battened down and everything was fast, of course, but our most serious danger was just then, as wo wero loaded deep and rolled so that we actually thought at one time we'd turn clear ovor, but wo camo through it ull right but heavily shaken up. "Tho wind came out from tho op posite quarter, in a few minutes blow the sea down again and raged with demoniac forco and decreasing velo city for an hour or so, tho barometer jumped up to near thirl y inches again, tho sky cleared until theru was not a cloud to be seen and tho typhoon was nasi; but it loft lis wreck behind. Numbers of small craft and several largo steamers wero on tiio beach in pieces no bigger than a yardstick. Tho harbor was full of toa-boxos for days from the wrecked vessels. Ashore the voiw was like that in Camden yes terday, only tho swath far wider" 1 have been live times noross the Atlan tic, in some heavy wintry ualo.s on that treacherous ocean, "was in a cyclono oil' llattoras in tho frigato Macedonia, have scudded two thou sand miles before tho 'bravo westerly winds' on ono parallel, oil' Capo of Good Hope when going out to India, but I have never seen tho wind blow so hard as in that typhoon. Indeed, 1 novor believed it could blow so, and usod to joko at the tnoss-tablo with tho Dxecutlvo ollicer, wbo had been In a typhoon prior to this one and would yarn about it. Dttrlntr tho height of tho typhoon ho whs standing alongside of mo under tho break of tho poop. Capt. J Crittenden Watson wan in tho cabin praying, ho leaned down oloso to my ear, ami yelling with till his power, otherwise I could not havo heard him for t!m shrieking of tho wind, said: 'Now, d n you, don't you boliovo it can blow.' My reply was mi atlirmativo nod of the head, as I registered the next jump of tho baroni otor." "Js thoro no way of escaping or mitigating tho dangers of these vio lent tornadoos'i"' "None thatscionco has yet discover ed. Outside, with sea room, you can run out on Ilium if you aro warned soon enough, as tho captain of tho Twilight tried to do lust Monday, but if caught in tho track of one all you can do is to niako everything snug about deuks, batten down your hatches, bend your storm-sails, furl your square (ails, and double lash them, run life lines along tho docks, and put vour trust m providence." I'liiluiUlphiu Times. Purine thO'M!iio:i of one hundred duyg lust year ono Hurnloun hotel paid u market 0111 of (125,000. Aiiiou tho 'Irian were 00.000 I omnia of heef, 13,000 pound of mutton. 20, rxiundsof lumb, 7 000 pounds of u.il, 1.1000 pound of pork, GO.bOJ pnunda of eh ckou, J.".0)0 poutida of KalllM- 101 dozen rquuba, M, 100 pounds of (lh, 0.000 nund of salmon, i,000 pound of bulli r, 'JUKXI dozen tgua, t5,000 quurU of tuilk und 10,0'J'J quart of ilium. Tho Maxwell-rrcllcr Murder Ca& Lennox Maxwoll, tho allcgod mrtr dcrcr of Prellcr, has arrived at St, Louis, tho scene of the awful crinio Tho horrible method employed in con cealing the murder, tho llight of th murderer and his arrest at far-ofl Auckland, have conspired to throw around the crime and tho criminal deep anil unusual interest. Maxwell, since his arrest, has con ducted himself cooll' and carelessly. He claims that he is Innocent and thai at tho riirht time his Innocence will be fully established. But this claim ia probably nothing more than a defiance, an clloi t to arouse jiublio sympathy in lus behalf as a persecuted man. Hi? real defense has probably beon made public in the tentative suggestions that Maxwell has a weak mind, and is even crazy; therefore, if guilty, not respon sible for his crime. Anotlior lino of defense has been shadowed in tho an nouncement that the supposed mifrdor was not murder but an attempt at nn inniraneo fraud. It is not probable that this latter defense will be attempt ed. Tho father and brother of l'rcllor, engaged in business on Wood stroet, near liuildhall, London, havo been in terviewed by a New York Herald re presentative and they say that this, story of Maxwell's about an insuranco fraud is "too monstrously improbable to bo considered for one moment as possibly true." They furthor statu that the murdered l'rellcr was a young man of excellent habits and quiet tastes, lie had good prospects in life, a line salary, and 110 money dilliculties. He had nothing to gain by dostroying his identity for tho paltry insuranco of $,r),000 all ho had on his life. Be sides, ho could not havo prolited by such a fraud except through his fathor and brother. Neither Mr. l'lollor nor his son will attend the tr'al at St. Louis, but it is a very important thinir that tho father says:" "Tho identification of mv son's bodv is most complete, as in addition to the identification by tho iiotel peo ple and personal friends, a cut on his thumb made by a barber in New York was.found on tho corpse." This stato tnent is well calculated to bring alarm to Maxwell and his attorney. It ex plodes tho "insuranco fraud" dofonse, and throws tho case upon different ground; and to render Maxwell's situation more dangerous it is furthor stated that a great surprise is in storo for tho people in tho Bhnpo of tho tes timony 111 tho hands of tho coroner and tho prosecuting attorney. What tho evidence is will not ho inndo pub lic until tho prisoner is arraigned. Tlie opening of the ease will bo watch ed for with a great deal of interest. A curious people will want to know what hue of defense will bo adopted in tho effort to prove thu accused innocent c.f ono of the most heinous of modem oriines. AntiMis Oily Times. The Undertaker's Bill. Washington special: Undertaker Merrltt, it is reported, thinks his bill for tho (iraut funeral will reach $30, 000. In his opinion it will bu paid in full by tho United States government. It is probable that congress will take some action relative to 'the paytnotit of the expense of the sickness and burial of (loneral Grant, but Uudortnkor Merritt should not havo too good an opinion of tho liberality of tho govern ment in making out his bill, or ho may bu disappointed. Undertaker Spcaro of this city has not yet received his pay for services rendered at tho Gar field funeral. Like Undertaker Mer ritt. ho paid S10 apiece forcarriagos that formed the procession from tho railway station to thocapitol when tho body was brought from Long Branch and thu same again when it was escorted back to the railroad station boforo starting for Cleveland. Ho fur nished sashes for lho congressional delegation and the pall-bourors, etc., his whole bill amounting to something like $1,000, but tho board of audit created by law to adjust tho claims on account of tho funeral thought that no more than thu usual price for carri ages should bo paid by Spoaro, and they refused to allow such uu amount. Thoy never took into account tho fact that on tlie day of the Gatiield funeral in Washington carriages could only bo obtained with tho greatest dilllculty oven at $10. Tho board told Spcaro that they would allqw him only about a third of his bill, ami they would not pay him that until he agreed to sign a "release of all furthor claim and give u receipt in full for his ac count. Ho declined to do this, and ho has never received a cent. Ho hopes, however, that congress will do some thing in the premises. It may not bo generally known that if congross docs not settle with Mr. Spoaro ho can suo the Garlield estato for tho amount of his claim. His experience may bo of interest to Undertaker Merrltt when ho goes to collect tho amount of his claim for tho Grant funeral. 'I ho Use of Sunflowers. This plant is a vigorous grower, and has been extolled as a pruvehtivo of malarial diseases. Tho seed a (fords excellent food for hens and also for horses. It is said that there is no kind of feed that will keep horses in health, give them a sleek appearance and liiako them lively and spirited liko tho sued of the suuilowor, feeding half a pint night and morning. It Is partic ularly recommended for giving a horso power of endurance, being fed half a pint night and morning with othor loud. The stalks and heads, after the seed is worked out, also make good mnlurial for tiros, and aro especially convenient in summer, when it quick tiro is desired and au enduring heat is not wanted. In their growth they make a sliowy appearance about dwell ings and give an agreeable frograuco to lho air. Tho latest direction in tho llne.of utilization of the sunflower is (he planting of a seed lu a place at tho proper distances, so that tho stalks us thoy grow will servo us bean polos. Wo havo seen them started in that way this season, and as they grow th leaves are removed, thus forming au oxcollent stalk for the bouns, but what tho client will be upou thum remains to bo seen. 'I ho roots must tax tha feeding capacity of tho soil quite heavily.--). Loud Qlobc-Vcmocrut. The euflro wool crop ut the l'luent Sound couut'e umuuuts thli tuaion to USD, 00 J lb