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LIFE IN RURAL ENGLAND Away from the Thunders of Mills and Olash of Oommerce. GLORIOUS GROUPINGS AND SYLVAN SCENES Astounding Falsehoods of Modern Fiction Regarding An Villages and Their ng d Historle, In Reglons (Copyrihted, 1593,) Loxnoy, April 10.—[Correspondence of T Bere. In my preceding article on Ei villages and their folk 1gave account ot seven Dnglish vi these in merest outline, Seven truly ror the number [ have personally visit Each one through leisurely study. for b abundant material for a winsome volume Some writers would have us believe that English were things of the past that rural England had completely gone to decay; that the smoke of factory stacks hung like a pall over the remains of all that 18 me and old good; that the thund the mills drowned all the dear country 8o that commercial England, with h cruel hand, had effaced almost the last of the erst sweot and char sides; and that brick and steel, coal and Brummagemn glist some ages, and hundred is furnish pen could 1sh or villages ow ind had i nd old vestig ing count and and then by varied now noble demesne or gentleman's seat, were features of an English man's landsc CAs goodly a prope American people have coue as true. But it is a any one who will re; saunter, not about England may know. Books are lurgel responsible for English fiction, 1 American fiction, of from a half a century ago was replete with village life and character. When Charlo Bronte laid down her pen, and the labor of George Elioc the « Vies at least in degree, what Shakes. » the Elizabethan—was done this of oundingly this. contury pretures ¢ vho wis to arly schiool delineation seemed to cease. her America nor produced a lasting England has since work of fiction upon rural scencs and lowly folk. Novelists have wal lowed in altrwism, psychological phenomena subtleties of crime and its detection, hideous salaciousness, religion, the infidelity and positive and comparative heroies of agnosticism and the shredded and drageled warp and woof of ultr metropolitan life. So those who v telligent fiction to reflect reality have that the English village and its folk surely passed away Again, the great come tantly to through the press, th statistical volumes, | of the great sentiment, In fairs and_pre in e rntense yon in felt had world of activities has reviews and through wrgely to the exel uuderlying world of fact America th ss of our od th nem oks in all the world 1 ful humlets of New lund, of the eastern and evenof the southern and middie states. Yet they are all just as they once prettier and tenderer for the hd increasing age. Here, simila ything is London, Leeds, Bir: mingh anchest Hull and that host'of practicail) 4 10 and cities of Yorksh con attention and Lancs and the 1 for a clse than and looms, uts and walkouts, sion and expansion id - their mendous trade superluti eve and harassing description. But the material and lite ) mains that all the thousands of ancient English villages, and with not a hali hun dred exceptions, are here just s they we at the beginning of the century, and just as wo have pored over them in the best old works of English fiction. Not only this, but hundreds of modern villages with winsome den architecture in the habiliment of Tudor times, King and intelli: s filled with ces have been added to the ¢ ingots and s ics and ships, enriched with luxurious gent fioricultu English I » congested districts of Lan cashire, Yorkshire, northern Warwickshire, S ordshire and Shropshire, not an ancient village has passed from sight, save where a and around * 80 thick vd every above and, wh clusters of acre of the horizon lik some mighty enc still stand the 1 my fellowship of de, an e und heart of those who rural England of literature is no tells us what perhaps some Hyde Par tor, railway station porter or ling man has told him, but still something he does not know ' and when the London lit- erary dilettante falls upon and dispose: igland in a single breezy miag twenty pounds little y crime, and better still all those without secking L and social at least one Hundreds lines of rail tion, by should ¢ A mong English villag can be found even along the '\ Leaving these at any ach, by trap, upon bicycle, or me an tageously and ' fuller of ion than all, on our own good legs, fine old hedge. ovdered highwiy furnish you an ustounding revel every half-day’s drive or walk 7 What wondrous *Journeymgs into are thus afforded. ~ What splendid history are thus reopencd —for it h and about Euglish villages in towns that English been made. What chailenges prompted to the great and the immortal to come from their wraithlands and walk beside you where they once dwelt. And how you find that ali you'knew of beoks has in expressibly lacked in the true color and feel ing until you thus wed presence and actual fty awith the toneless tale of words ! The wealth of number of these olden villages in Kent alone would confound the Dryasdusts and the iconoclasts of vural & land. It is with a thrill o that you wander through Saltwoo eping out between leafy hills upon the glovious sea; Lyminge, and still beside the most ancient hern Kent, so aucient that in actually seen every specimen of lesiastic architecture N xon to Perpendicular, so aucient still that St. Edilberga, one of its patron suiuts and duughter of the Saxon King elbert, who reigned more thun 1000 years buried*within: Exith, withits unique ho its winding lunes of green, banks of chalk, shadowy combes and tender uplanas; Cobham, leafiest, snuggest and prott all Kentish villages, with its lordly stately towered o rasses of 600 iyears inmemory of the noble Cobl ts “'Leather Bottel” inn the immortal pages of Pickwick; beautiful old Shrone, girdled with massive elms and richest orchard bloom; and set along the lane-girt dowus, cl the woody Weld, or nestling smong Kentish orchards’ and hop gardens, with their rows of cottages with white-wushed walls, dormer windows, thatehed roofs and garden fronts e; ze of fuschins, pinks, carnations and *$; and all of them 100 to 1,000 years old. Who is ther y describo or drtoning old vill every will tion in been in paint the En District ‘ens,” wh u 1y an old aaub-and still be seen! It is a Jana of lagoons ; of grassy dykes; of ghostly windmills us buge and as numerous as in Hollaud; of rich und low lying farm stead- “Norfolk and Suffolk Dilham o clish | Ings_interspersed by “broads” of seday, shallow lakes; of mighty herds of cattle and sheep; of duck. widgeon, mallard and coot; of pleturesque nns-of-call half hidden | among copses of willows; of ruined castles, | abbeys and priories whose ancient moats are now serving as market gardencrs canals; of | gray old hamlets set about with clumps of vollard oaks; und of a peasantry as simple, brave and true as in good old Sir John toll's days-—-not Shakespeare's unc knave of the “Merry Wives,” but of th Fastolf who valorously fought the battle of Herrings and soundly drubbed the French The eventide pictures from some of these old waterside hamlet porches are worthy the brush « Turner or a Millet As the sun goes down in forests of waving reeds, it flames the thatches of hamlets on opposite shore, weirdly lichts the arms of the spectral windmill nging to a looming nearne tow of far olden the livid top of son with goid. As it sinks from sight the waters of the Broads ave for nent purple, then pitchy black. when utly the stars are shining in the depths above and from the waters beneath with o shin ing luster enveloping all. Then the songs and chirps of myriad insects: the whire and splash of late-homing water fowl and the witching, whispered soughing of the oreeze in the rushes and the reeds Up in Cumberland and Westmoreland wh loving wraiths of me coujured wh auty of slum berous, verd Kes wick, Grasme and Bowness! Here old Keswick town dwelt and sa and lies buried in Crossthwaite ¢ h yard, near the mur murings of the ta he so loved, the high poet of ance and meaitative calm, Here, too. the unhagpy Coleridge most fraitful, though still the most rable, ecars of lis baleful slavery to a de daru ind with his givl wife, Harriet, Shelley here new the 1 of ancient ith, verhaps, th s bask passed the mi; 1 cortainly and: Grasmere soundly walloped nurrying” her Quincey hived in his ss1 and, in St. Oswald's ard sleep Hartley Coleridge and Wordsworth, beside the beauteons which from sequesteri ng the old church s they sang nory gives fancy ) liv 1 the deathle That to the Rydal who is penc ed on lul mount, years, Sturd Y, ihove th iconoclastic, yet stian if still heretic Martincat: stands bright and ciear picture amoug the blossoms of songful Ambleside. Christopher North, with his \ frame and benizn face, as'if the very spirit of the lovely on shone from his kindly eyes, makes these villuge ways sun uier for his strong, sure tread. With him, though later, you will see another on calm, tender, noble, one who throu labors at Rugby swept for British cducational system the brutality and dread, lofty souled. n Aroold; while old Bowness, huddlin tween the highway and the fell side, is sweeter still because you see through its ting cottage pancs the wraith of good Feiicia He a tinge of sadness in ber pallid, pat Pleasant inde amony the villay most picturesque timbe land can be found a hamlets, Sleeny old Godalm nest of fu Nomes, and number habitations are still in goo At Shere, the former hon Ormond and the noble ho Hurriet in the 's 1dle loitering Some of the s of il and charmingly picturesque old mill house; Haslemere with its high and graceful chim: Chiddincford, where glass was first wade in England. with its fine fourteenth century cottawes and famous old Crown inn; Witley, with its church tower sur- motnted spire as quaint as that of | Stoke Pogis, and its cottages which in ket : Alford, most uges. with ill-fated Sir Thom deposited in St. Di You will never b at upon the Avon, you set out in quest of niglish villages within the western shives. The thatches of the hamlets lean eve slong the Avon almost to the river® You will have no need foran ins your ycoman comparion you will | welcomed ey v ptting the val- | ch uy within check s or denser rows of 1j turn backed by vanks of forest primeva; in such droning quict, ample content ana smilng opulence that, full of the winey exul- | tation of it all, you again and again irresisti bly exclaim, “Here is Arcady | one could wander for a whole | id never tire of its mossy nooks | , with its long straggling street | abled homes, its exquisite 1 Moot hall’ and its noble am hall; Coggestiall, with its abbey ruins ‘and curious “Woolpack Saffron Walden, hotbed of Essex supersti- tions, with its ruined castie, wonderful old houses and antique Sun inn which has set the I antiquarians endlessly by the cars; Finchingfield with its jumble of cot- tages piled one upon another and its quainy timber-built alms houses, like those of Coventry; St. Osyth, with its remarkable church, splendid old priory and marvelously | beautiful g and” Little Dunmoy, eling, st that it is, but famous world over 1d itch of | Bacon™ prize for ¢ 3 Aud if all these were not eno you know the beautiful rur | wiiere the shives of Bucks, Berks and Sur- rey join, and saunter but for a day round about royal Windsor, At Chertsey. but nine miles distant, once famous for its abbey, lived and died the | poct Cowley, while Albert Smith, author of | “Christopher Tadpole” and many other charming works of fiction, was born in the | o quaint old viily Datchet s, about a mile from Windsc of a very ancient monaste t Mead was rendered famous by | speare in his “Merry Wives of Wind- But four miles distant is the quaint cquestered village of Horton. In this kyn Manor house, livedaMilton, with his d mother when they reti business i 16: us,” “Arcades,” “Lycidas,” “L'Alle and 11 Penseroso. t Old Windsor, | two miles down the river, is one of the most impressive old yew and cyprus sh churchyards in England. 1ts Moat wasaho | @ seat of Suxon kiugs. Robiuson, and th nate I 1 here, a mont lodg foriner Hastings ray is but Thames. ‘The onds, was th 8 vi who chunged his lizion four t 8, in suc- cessiv that he mizht dic’ n his Sliving, At Beacoustield, to the north near | Wilton park, was the honie of Waller, the poct, and” Burke, the statesman, Here at Sloagh, two miles to the north, is the house scupied so long by Sir William Herschel, and you will sec here a part of his great forty- | foot tele: while two wiles further, | beyond n nestling in clumps ¢ and oak. is the olden home of the Penns, v which is the mossy old parish church and hamlet of Stok is, where was writ ten the purest and sweotest elegy to be | found in thesEnglish tongue. Mrs. unfortu 1 its Beau i the authoress ita, is buri was the miles di stant, up the | Hry ' one Sym 1s cleric ke WAKEMAN liest library was that of N Ivery book with cuneiform char a brick, en Dl € 10 i-lination to use pills them sick . day for every dos. Theyhave learnad that Little Early Riscrs does not int theirhealth by causing nausea, pain or geip These little pitis are perfect in action sults, regulating the stomach and | that headaches, dizziness and They « Y r the complexion and to ¥ | system. Lots of health in these little fel- lows, | Button | B Pulp. ... hen will | | Whip | trade from public | lieving that des | before THE CENTRALIZED CAPITAL. A List of Gigantie Trusts that Have Grown Up 1o This Country. Much has been written of the growing tendency of private fons to pool i sues for the purpose ntrolling § tnroughout this country. \ der of the day. A recent ar. | New Nation enumerat trusts with estimated capital The following prefatory statement is also given by that paper s competition has fostered the monopos lization of industries to such an extent that the price of nearly every necessity of life is fixed by a private trust. We have taken the trouble to prepare a partial list of the more important private trusts built mainly on the ruin or surrender of small businesses. The item of capital is cont 1 tion estimated, they 1 the approxima the poses of discussing the business sit Several trusts we have not even attempted to . Whether we look at the moralor the side of the question, the disap ce of small mdustries is alarming. Take the white lead trust, which is known on the Stock s the National Lead pur company. Its nding certificates agirregate 30,000,000, In 1550 the trust con trolled a majority of the stock in thirty-one anics, including the plants of thre smelters and one refinery for the protectic of pig lead. Over #2,000,000 of the stock wat T'here is probably not a company of | the original thirty-one which is not the re- sult of local competition and rivalry disas trous to small concerns. ‘Tariff reduction tends to solidify _rather thau destroy the trust Of the 4,047 recognized millionaires only 1,125 won their fortunes in protected in- dustries. “Trusts. Dressed beef and provisions Standard ¢ Sugar refiners Tron leag illinois st Gener ele Steel rail Sheet copper Cottonseed oil Tombstone. CGias (New York Distilling and Cattlefeeding Water works pumping machinery Clgarctte Smelters M. uts' steel al water wdo conl combine Pork combine Copper ifgot 7 M » ‘combine od oil Capital L E100,000,000 90,000,000 000,000 7,000,000 000,000 000,000 50,000,000 10,000,000 41,000,000 000,000 00,000 000,000 000,000 000,000 000,000 000,000 000,000 20,000,000 000,000 18,000,000 1,000,000 15,000,000 15,000.000 15,000,000 15,000,000 15,000,000 15,000,000 15,000,000 12,000,000 000,000 40.000 10,000 11,500,000 10,000,000 10,000,000 10,000,000 10,000,000 10,000,000 10,000,000 10,000,000 10,000,000 10:000,000 10,000,000 10,000,000 10,000,000 10.000,001 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 | 9,000,000 8.000.000 S.000,000 5,000,000 K1000,000 5,000,000 000,000 Axe Bituminous coal School furniture Condensed milk Boiler ‘orda; Biscuit and « Tube. Lith Bolt Brass ; Electrie supply Fur combine Wire : Wood sy Barbed wir bine nand coal pe founders. .. Preservers combine. Cellulod Plate glass, Flint glass. . 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