Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 13, 1893, Page 10

= 10 THE FUTURE OF THE NECRO Moasured by Present Oonditions in Amerioa it is Not Hopeful, EX-SENATOR INGALLS' POSITION ENDORSED Tishop Tarner Advoostes the ation of the Wisck Man to Afriea—Foreefal resentation of Facts by n Dis- tingalshed Colored Divin [Copyrighted, 1893.1 Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls has written an articie on the deeply interesting nggro prob- | lem. Mr. Fr k Douglas, Prof. Langs- | ton, Bishop Taylor and Mr. T. Thomas For- | tune have replied to Mr. Ingalls. As one deeply 'd in progress of my raco 1 shall express my opinion on a subject so important to us espocially as 1 cannot agred with the gen tlemen who havo undertaken to answer the distinguished Kansan 1do not caro to speculate on the motives of ex-Senator Ingalis. Ho may dislike the negro and wish to gt rid of him, or he may bo a sincere fricud. 1 shall deal with his ar- gument. For convenience T shall divide his article into two parts: First, the condition of the negro; secondly, the remeay for his impr ment. The ex-senator states that the neg treated by the whites in this country asa member of an inferior race; that he is de- prived of political and civil liberty in the south; that the juries, composed of white men generally, will always decide against him, when a white man's interest is placed in jeopardy; that his ballot is uncere- moniously thrown out, so that the fourteenth antl’ fifteenth amendments arve practically nullified; that he is lynched on the slightest occasion and upon tho merest sus- picion of guilt: that in the north, as well as in the south, there is not the equiality; that the labor of the negroes in the south is often obuained without adequato compensation. This is the supstance of the ox statement of the facts of the neg tion. Is it substantially true? Conceding that his motives may be un- friendiy and malicious, that does not alter the facts of the negro's condition. Ingalls’ Statoments Correot, We agroe with Mr. Ingalls in his statement of the facts. ‘The condition of tho nogro is as he states it. He is treated a8 an inferior; is deprived of his civil and political rights; is assignod n separate conveyance among common carriers by law; heis forbidden by law to intermarry ; he is compelled to attend separate schools and churches. The facts, I think, will be gencrally con- ceded. The difference will appear when we tome to consider tho remedy, which we shall now do. Mr. tho future interes vo- onator's condi- Ingalls recommends emigration to Africa, Messrs. Douglass, Langston and Fortune advise the negroes to remain in this country and fight the dificulties, ex- pressing the bolief that they can and will b overcome in time. Let us consider these various remedios, Tn entering this field of speculation we shall not indulge in abuse, but consider the opinious of other calmly, and_express our own respectfully, knowing that opinions are ouly valuablo in proportion to the weight of the argument that sustains them. The Antipathy of tho Raocs. That there is a strong raco antipathy be- tween the whites and blacks at present will be universally admitted. I8 that antipathy natural and inherent, or Is'it the result of circumstances ‘Most men answer this fundamental ques- tlon according to their wishes and hopes, and cons‘der this as conelusive. When you call for reason and argument they become excited and abusive, as if they regarded the correctness of their views us self-ovident. Now, as our view of this fundamental proposition will greatly influence our opinion of the proper romedy, lov us pause a moment and examine iv carefully. Lev us state the question again. There are at present 02,000,000 of persons in round numbers in these Uuited States. About 10,000,000 of this number are negroes and their descendants. Will the 52,000,000 ab- sorb the 10,000,000 in course of tim nd will they hecome one race, or, if not, can the negro and the white man’ live together as one, perfectly cqual in every respect, civilly, politically and socially? for no self-respect- ing negro will accept anything olse. Iuisu unique problem. We approach it with great difidence. There are those who express their opinton witn a confidence in proportion to their ignorance. A Problem Without a Parallel, “There is not a parallel in all history for our guidance, The Anglo-Saxon race that controls this country is a peculiar one. 1tis a masterful and dominating race. Wherover it has set- tled among other vaces by colonization it has always either subjected the native races or exterminated them. It has subjected the native race India and at the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. It has pract extor- minated the Indans in the United States, and it has, to all ntents and purposes, wiped out tho natives in Australia and New Zeatand, Subjection or extermination is the rule, absorption is the exception GIt must also be rememberod that those Taces, with the exception of those at tho Cape of Good Hope, were not negeoes, and none were slaves. The st Indiaus woere a highly cuitivated and self-governing race for centuries bofore the Anglo-Snxons, The In- dians of this country wer ords of its mag- nificont forests for centurics and resisted the invaders. Still Suftering from Siavery, The negroes of this coun! for 230 years, held in a subjection by the white: msgnificant attempts at robellion and ef- forts to free themseives during the whole of that long period. They ureat present com- poor and ignorant, and, while ol mass of thom are not greatly advancod in intelli al wealth ubove what they yiero in slavery. I ndmit that the advanconient made b; many duving the last thirty years, handi capped they were, in intolligence and wealth; inthe eitics’ especially, has boen Dighty ereditable. und areucs most hopefully for the future, and for the nutural energy of the nogro. But, notwithstanding all this, the vast bulk of the 10,000,000 have not risen far in waterial condition above what they 'y were slaves luto and complete with but one ortwo That s cultural and blac pated serfs of onough 1o Loep the natural ral vesult of an agri Douswtry in 1l countries, white 1t is 0 with the white emanci- | Russin. They barely maie | oul and body together. Wo are aware that therd are about 1,000,- 000 nezroes living in cities espocially, who mude vomarkiblo advance in intelli- suco and wealth siuco omancipation, but thoy ure ouly one-tenth of the great iauss, and for all practical purposes the lavger number dewrmines tho treatment of the small When the whites of this country decide upon o plan of treating the negro they do not solect the best specimens to detoruming that plan, but the worst. It is not 8o with the various other vaces that compose the heterogencous American people. They did not feel callod upon to treat the lowest Irish | laborer as thoy did treat the distinzuished Irish lawyer, Charles O'Connor. But if Frederick’ Douglass, Bistop D. A. Payne, DD, LlaD., or ex-Senator Bruce were 0 ®.avel here in the south they would be place fn_the fnferior car, set apart for ne- roes, although one is the peer of Calhoun or Biay, anothor she vldost bishop ou earih and » man with 10 sujierior 3 & scholar in this sountry, wad the other an honared und dis- Linguisbed memberof the United States seu- ate for six consecutive years, B Ohrletlanity Nor Potential, Curistianity does not ssem to have much {uflnence i dotermining this question. The whites look upon tho DeEroes 4s proper ob. jooks of missionary labor, but tho question of 1. political and social rights is not dotor inod by rolizious considerations. We admit thic shivory was desiroved by the Chrisviam seatimont of the civilized world Dut slavery is oo thing and eivil, politica determined largoly, if not solely, by worldly considerations. Repatristion the Remedy. We believe, therefore, that if the negro dotermines to remain in this country ho has o long, hard battle before him. It may bo that, in_the course of generationsor cen- turies afier ho has acqui and_intelligence, he equality in all respacts; Tn the moantime, however, we be the negry should do as the Caucasian has done, viz: Emigrate to other lands to b his condition. The Caucasian has turies, and on muech less provocation than the negro has. The British bave loft the cwvilization and_culture of their homes and peopled India, Africa, Australis, North and South Ame ) have the Garmans, thy French, the Spanish and the Italians. Their object has been generally material advancement While they have cstablished froo institu- tions in the countries which they have popu- lated, thay yet retain the warmest affection for their native lana, and often pattern their institutions in their now countries after those of the old. Has the negro the pride and the ambition to establish a country of his own, as th { moro wealth perfect obtain Jone this for cen- Caucasian has done in this country, and in Australia? Or is he contont to remain here a4 pariah and o serf—treated with contu- moly and contempt for an indefinite period, with the hope that, porhaps, in the remoto future, say one or two centuries to come, he will be s bleached out by the process of absorption that e will be a negro no longer, as Mr. T. Thomas Fortune oxpresses it, or with the alternative that, oven if not ab- sorbed, he ean obtain complote equality as negro, 'when he acquires sufficient wealth and education? To stato the question is to answer it. We do not beliove that the Caucasian will accept the African as an equal in every respect. © have shown, hie has not done 50 in @ country, with any other race, and it is, thorefore, purely chimerical and visionary to expect it. Ono of the saddest results of slavery is its offect upon_the prideand ambition of tho negro. Hoe has been enslaved so long in this country that, somehow or other, he will sub- it to kicks and cuffs in the most obsequious and servile manner, and then Lek the hand that smites him. We confess that weare almost aiscour- aged with regard to the present generation. Our hope is in the young and rising genera- tion. Emigration to ro in favor of a_judicious emigration beria. We should liko to soe large number of young men with ambition and ~or middlo-aged or old men with ex- nee and capital, of old and young men and women with education and culture to 3y the young, of mechani and agricul- turists, go there to setile that country, the only one. inaddition to Hayti, whera' tho being horin, problem’ of negro government is solved. 2 do not advise the timid 238 MAN 10 g0 the and old and there. He would be tenderfoot is in_ our fertile western | s, who is elbowed out of the country by the brave and hardy pionecrs, and is glad to return to the shelter of s early environments. Ve hiave visited Africa more than once, and have mspected the territorial domain of the Liberian Republic, modeled after the United States in its legislative, exccutivo and judicial departments, and we speak of what we kuow and have seen. Wo say calmly and deliberately, that it presents magnificent possibilities to the 0 race of the United States, and is the place deserving wention, upon the 1ace of the globe now left to the black man, where there is u ghost of a chance to demon- to his ability for self-government, and y the drama of full fledged manhood. My only fear is that if they do not avail themsclves of these possibilities soon, Kng- land, through her colony of Sierra Leone on the north, and France from the south will absorb tho republic of Liberia, unless pro- tected by the United States, and this splen- did, if not the only, opportunity will pass away from the negro forover, Ameriews Duty to Liberia, The United States government ought to protect Laberia from the wicked encronch- ments of France thit are in progress at this time. President Cleveland should send a dozen men-of-war to the Liberian coast im- mediately and force avaricious France to ro- linquish her bogus claim to the seventy-five or 100 miles of Liberian coast, which she is dotermiugd to take away from that infant republic, and to which she has no more claim than hell has to heaven. Some of the present cabinet officers favor 1t, but whether the exccutive does or not is yet to be determined. If the United States Ccongress were composed of first class states- men, such_far-seeing statesmen as Senator Butler of Soath Carolina, they would meet and settle the financial question which has the nation in suspense, appropriate $100,000,- 000 to protect Liberia from the greed of France and put a line of steamers between somc southern port and Af-ice Then the so-called negro problem would solve itself. The condition of things pictured in tho letter of ex-Senator Ingalls, which is a menace Lo every negro in the land posses- sing the mstizcts of manhood, would soon disappear, as the negro would shape his own destiny by a repatr al movement that would astonish the world in ten yi True, the wealthy and the ignorant negro would oppose 1t. Ono because life is easy and race patriovism is wanting, and the other because he hasno thought beyond a menial and a scullion. But there is a middle class—thoughtful, industrious, self-reliant and venturesome—who would thank God and avail themselves of the opportunity. Return to Africa Inevitable. Our nation will haye to come to it sooner or later, sd the sooner the botter. For as long as a singlo vight, privilege or immunity is denied the negro so long will he be a men- aceto the nation, Square and fair dealing in every particu- lar must be meted out to the negro, or there will be an insolvable problem existing. No species of persecution, violence, lynch- ing or burning will eradicate the pending evils which constitute the negro protlom, If the white yieople of the country do not intend to concede to the negro unrestricted mauhood, the sooner they place hundreds of millions of dollars at his disposal toleave the most race-discriminating country upon the face of the globe, and seek more congenial quarters, the better for its peace and har- o, In'the use of the term mean the south. Irefer to the United States asa nation. For the south perpetrates no violenco upon the negro that the north does not indorso by its silence or non-interfer- ountry, I do aot ence. Wien secession was inaugurated the north objected and interposed her steong arm Lo contravene its actualization, But so far as the north teying to stay tho bloodshed i the south, it has becomo s participant, and is particeps criminis in the sight of and considerate mankind Whils thereis no excuse or_palliation for the hideous and horribly revolting crimes so arged upon members of the neg s loug us they are not given a faiv wial by the courts of the land, so long will they be looked upon as the victuns of vio- lence. Kor overy man is inuocent until ho i proven guilty, Hang them if guilty, but give them a [air trial, Hux No Civil Righta Waiving what is commonly known as politi- cal rights, as 1 not propose to touch politics in any form, it is well known to the country that the negro has no vivil rights whatever, excopt those thut are grauted by the re: sbootive stites, or that he 15 permitted to cujoy by suffrance. For the United States supreme court, by its abominable decision, robbed the negro of all civil rights October 15, 1583, Justice Bradwell acting as its mouthplece—a dezision a hundrod times worc revolung and unnatural tham the much-fawed decision of Chief Justice Tuney, which declared that black men had no” rights which white meu are bound to resvect. Chief Justice Taney only voiced the condition of things as they ex istod inthe duys of slavery, while Justice Bradloy issued a decreo on’ behalf of the suprouie court that nullificd the plain acts of congress and the expressed provisions of the constitution of the United States, and has fetterod the arms of the executivo and logis. lative de wents of the nation, 0 far as man is coucerned, for all tite to At the negro has to complain of re- garding his deprivation of civil rights was decreod by the United States supreme court wheu it was composed of northern wen with ono exveption, Justice Harlan of Kentucky, und Lie, o southern mun, alons dissented. I'lie negro is, therefo an outlawed in- uabitant of this couutry, for & people divested of their clvil nghts can hope for wothing but degradation aud contewpt. wud sucial equality is snother thing, sud itis Foreigoors of every grade and shadecan 10AT AAET R THE OMAHA come here from the ends of the world and enjoy civil provection, civil respect und re- ceivo civil recognition, while the colored race can enjoy nono unless some state gen- erously confers them. Contentment an Tmpossibility, Now, 1 ask, oan the nezro be contented, hapoy, patriotic and progressive under such a condition of things! The interrogatory answaers itsslf. Were the negro to_content himself under such surroundings it would be a declaration notonly of his inferiority but of his fitness to be only a menial, a slave and a scullion ; and he should requost the nation to _remand him to bondage. As for the theory of absorption, or the American negro being bleached out by intermixture with tho whites, it is the argon of folly. The negro does not want it, nd the whites execrateit. To talk about times getting botter in a contury or 8o is an idle dream. Ireland has been under the domination and, in many respects, the cruel persecution, of England for 721 years, and during my stay in England in the month of May just passed 1 heard Gladstone abused for everything in the catalogue of villainy, bocause he is tey- ing to grant a fow moro rights. And the sh aro denounced and berated from Lords y and Churchill_down in the most calumnions manner possible. Yet they are 1l white. Now, what may the negro expoct, who is not only blaclk, but is destined 0 remain sof For miscegenation is virtually at an end. When I was a boy white and colored chil- dron played, rollicked and fought with each other, as though they were all of one color and virtually ignorantof any color diffe ences, ‘They grew up to be men and women with mutual_respect and sympathy, which slavery adicato, y the time they reach percep- tive consciousness, they are taught by their respective mothers, and frequently by their fathers, to shun, spurn and_even hate each other, and this spirit of mutual scorn and alienation grows, matures and is intensitiod as they reach manhood and womanhood, ating a chasm between the two races that can never be bridged. And the man must bo blind or deaf to the voice cf reason who cau not see what must be the sequel. Blovdshed Sure to Foltow. The race hate and color prejudice im- planted in childhood and youth are as sure to bear a crop of bloodshed and carnage, sooner or later, as the sun is sure to set. The Ameri- can negro will one day want some place to rest the soles of his bleading feet, and the negro 18 a fool if he does not take time by the forelock and prepare for it. ¢ The negro has no friends now in congress as formorly. The grand cluster of brave, heroic and mighty statesmen, whose voices onco rang like thunder peals’ from the na- tional legislature in our behalf, are all aead, and the forty-nine members of congress who fill the seats that ougnt to be filled by black men by virtue of our numerical strength, do nothing but misrepresent us at every oppor- tunity. Congress is likely to be composed of wara politicians, with a few exceptions, and men who becomo terrorized at any issue iu- volving even handed justive to the black man, for an indefinite tine, so the negro has nothing to expect from that quarter. “The 40,000 white ministers of the country are too busy with the little Sunday exhibi- tions at the World’s fairat Chicago to notice the flow of blood which is deluging the coun- try and provoking the ultimate vengeance of a God, whose retributive justice will not slumber forever. The Negro's Only Futuer. Therefore, the only future for tho negro is to leave the country, and the only future for the American repubiic is to assist hm in doing so. A8 this letter is already too long, T forbear to continue thisline of argument. ~ But thero is no manhood future in this country for the negro. I do mot deny that he may exist here for ages to come, and play the part of a menial and a scullion, but if he intends to do that he had better return to slavery. Then, as in antebellum days, he would have white men to protect him for self-interest, which he bas 1ot at present. But above all the arguments which have been advanced in favor of the negro return- ing to Africa is that I believe it to be the will arfd purpose of God. 1 have no doubt that the things we complain of is the voice of God, loudly speaking to the negro to sarise and depart, for this is not your place of rest.” In conclusion I beg to say that there is far more politicai philosophy and broad states- manship in the position of ex-Senator In- galls than a casual or prejudiced observer is likely to detect. H. M. Turxer, D.D., LL.D. Bishop of the A. M. E. Church. e PARENTAL ADVICE. Sam Walter Foss in Yankee Blade, Feolin' stroakid, ain't yy, Johnnyl Wal, this is the way [ ¢low it, That the gals would ike to love ye, Bat you've got to make 'om do it Don't go browsin’ at ¢ distanco In somo pastur’ *way off yonder, Dot bolleve what Ifots tell ye “*Absence makes the heart grow fonder." up to 'em, Johnny, smarter; Cato give you tho mitten; 0., b3 SUFO 1S KOSPEL 1t you hadn't béen such a kitten, You will earn to view this matter Bimoby jest y, L viow ity That the gals would Ilke to love ye, But you'vo got to make 'em do it Everybody's bound to have ‘om Al nt any rate, but fow are: An' wen I was young an’ lively I was taken jést as you are. An' I went an' popped it to her Skeored completely out of natur’, Tromblin' like s frightenod rabbit, Blushin’ iiko a red termater, Aftor she hud tol’ mo “No, sir," I was jost about as you'be, ioin’ "round limp, an' kindor' dumpish, “eelin’ like n blasted booby. But 1 fin'ly spunked up cournigo Liko o man to go an’ win her, An’ sie's been a blessin' to me. I can't suy & word agin her! “Did T got her?” Now you're crazy. Do you 8'poso I'd get, another Wen I loved tho gal liko I did? o an’ nsk hor, she's yer mother, Since that time I tell the youngsters Jost the way L allus view It, That the gals would 1ike to love ‘em, But they've got to make ‘em do it. P R THE YOU TER! A boy of 6 was crazy for a drum, to which his mother and the other inmates of the house objected on account of the noise they knew ho would make. One night after ho ot in bed his mothor heard him repeating carnestly Now I Iny me down to sloop, 1 want a drum; I pray tho Lord my soul to koep, L want adram, It 1 shoula I want I pray the-Lord-my—soul—to—take, I want—a—dram, Just as he was falling wto dreamland, Myrtle, a Nebraska City 4-year-old, ac- compunied an elder sister to a social at which the gamo of grab was a feature. On retiring that night, her miad filled with the auties of the game, she prayed with much feeling: Now I lay me down to sleop, T vray the Lord my soul to keep. 1£1 should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to tiske— Grab, grab, grab! “Have you boon fishing?" said his father. Tne boy was silent. Thero was evidently a great struggle going on within him, “You musl answer me, my son; have you been fishing ! “Well, father, will you tell mo one thing first " Yes. What is it?” “Do you call it going fishing when you don't catch anything?” Little Leslie, 7 years old, the quintessence of affectionato swoetness, was sick one day, when he said to his mother amma, 1 didn’t make myself sick.” 1 know it, my dear;ivis God's will” “Then why don't God make me well?” “He will in his own good time,” auswered the little mother. *I reckon He's ‘tonding to some other busi- ness,” rejoined Leslio. Roubie Little, a boy of 8, never forgets to say his prayers. Not long ago he had just finished praying, when his mamma remarked that his prayer must have boen very short. “Well,” he said, *'| prayed for brother and for you. Now, | think I had better put in a tling for myselt” . Teacher—Geraldine, spelit Geraldine—I don't know, ‘Teacher—Why, certainly you do. What doss your papa sdy when ho sits down at the Labl Geraldine--Ob, he says * | shis all you have'to ead what does g-rea-c-e eat Scott! is DAILY BEE: SUN PAGES HOLIDAY RESORTS OF LONDON Mighty Tides that'Sweep Along the South and East'Ooasts, srer— HAMPSTEAD HEATH AND EPPING FOREST y—— Places Whers Tholisfids of the Poor and Lowly of the British Metropolis Seok Rest, Recreftin'and » Breath of Fresh Alr. [Copyrighted, 1893.\ Loxpox, July 20.—[Special to Tie Bee.]— Tho vastness of London’s population is less felt in its impressiveness from meeting it face to face in London thoroughfares than from even the still, inadequate comprehen- sion securablo through seeing some of its component parts in its various holiday re- sorts for summer outings, In the first in- stance if one could severally confront its 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 inhabitants along its 7,000 mules of streots, the monotony of the oxperience would detract from just percep- tion of 1ts tremendous import. But when you might pass an entire month, ndeed, Perhaps an entire summer, without being able to visit, with the most careful disposi- tion of time, any large proportion of its im- mediate resorts, finding at cach outiug crowds numbering from hundreds to almost hundreds of thousands, tne immensity of the totality of those who are “outers’ and those who are not begins to dawn upon the ob- servant mind. There are more than 100 populous resorts, from thirty minutes’ to two and a half hours’ distance from tho Strand, beginning at Bournemouth and following the south coast with a circle of the Isle of Wight to the east coast, including those of the north and south shores of the lower Thames, and thence up along the channel to Gireat Yarmouth. On every pleasant Saturday half holiday, on sunby Sundays and on bank holiday and other full summer holidays, every one of these places 18 thronged, The rich, the well- to-do idlers and the families of comfortable tradesmen are found in these. 1 believe 250,000 of “outers” of all classes are at the same time afloat upon or lounging beside the Thames from Margate to Windsor. Asan experiment in seeing London outing crowds, in one day’s travel I found perhaps 30,000 peoplo 1 Greenwich park: as many more at Brighton; at least 10,000 overflow- ing Royal Kew gardens; fully 40,000 in Hyde park, where it seemed that all tho open-air speakers of Iingland were haranguing crowds upon every conceivable social, political and religious subject; from 40,000 to 50.000 on and about Hampstead Heath; and from 100,000 to 150,000 disporting themselves in the sun and shade of ancient Epping Forest. On this one day I secured at least glimpses of crowds that in all forms of holiday mak- ing must have numbgrod, more than 750,000 soills. S Humpstead Hoath ang Epping Foreat. Unquestionably the greatest two resorts for the London middle classes and the lowly are Hampstead Heath gnd Epping Forest. 1t 1s but a pleasant walk from tho heart of London to Hampstead Heath,for its farthest reaches can be nosfarther than six miles from the Strand, whilo an Epping Forest to- and-return fare issbut,l shilling, and. the myriad London costermgngersand other pos- sessors of tidy carts pud traps find it an easy jog for thewr donkeys or screws to either of these recreation grounds. The result is that in both of these resorts you invariably find hordes of the “‘common people” filled to the brim with horse play, ‘four ale’ and good cheer. They are vigorous in their merry- making as children lgused from school. They the utilization of every Moment of the holl- day in some sort of Pugged diversion. . And altogevher they furnish scenes of the heartiest, easiost-provoked, most unctious and vociferous holiday enjoyment to be found in all the world. But who can properly describe this anclent Hampstead Heath and its quaint and pic- turesque surroundings, or fitly tell its weird and pleasant memories? “Gor bli me!” ex- aimod a coster friend, ‘‘me bloomin’ donah 'd fade to & hangel ef I didu't jog her upon th’ Eath wonet a week er so, Gor bli me, so she would!” That was his idea of its exceed- ing utility. “I'd rayther ha' a mouthfu o’ th 'Eath air_than the best wittles my mis- sus do mess together!” observed a tram-car driver on the Kentish Town road; and that was his glowing tribute to its fine salubrity, “\ye'n yer goes in for a reg'lar lark, mind. wav's easy o git, an’ sweet as a Essex milk- mald to remember, 'Ampstead 'Eath’s th’ parydise yer wants ter keep yer heye on!” was the brisk and authoritative remark of a green grocer's man upon its ethical and di- verting advantages, as I ruwminativeiy trudged into old Hampstead town. All these fine encomiums brought me with cherry en- thusiasm to the verge of the enchanted holiday region. The Heath isa trifio west of north of the heart of London. It is not more than 300 or 400 acres in extent, but as it comprises the highest and wildest hilis rising out of the valley of tho Thames, the railways have had to stop at its edgo and leave the region for the people, almost us nature fashioned it. The High street of old Hampstead town, winding up the last steep of the first hill which has stood 2s a rampart against Lon- don encroachment, gives charming views of ancient houses, old _streets which have held their old names, old courts and avenues of Times aud elms 5o old that the midday light beneath them is like the saffrony gloaming of eventide. There is a pensivo hush in these streets and lanes suggestive of splen- did antiquity and gentle, loving decay. . 1t would be a glorious outing in itself to saun- ter und dream in these lovely avenues and courts. with here and there their shadowy vistas blending into_blossoming lancs, every one of which, sun-flecked and odor-laden, invites to the free, wide expanse of the pleasant country beyond. Iuspiration for Painter and Poet. You enter sthe heath at once from old Hampstead town, and instantly comprehend that tho region and its attractions to Lon- doners must be considered in three distinct and delicious aspects—its advantages for free and untrammeled recreation; its posi- tive inspiration to painter and poot and ex- cellent uses_ for the naturalist, and from those blendings and environment of mellow age, tenderest nspeot of all, which furnish thelidler and_dreamer a Host of winsome memories. First of all it is a wild and rugged heath and novia park. Dark, wind- bound fir trees hang’iagainst sandy ridges, where they have fors cenuries clutched the virgin soil. There ligh banks of red sand pierced by rabbit burrows, providin tiny crags of furze, fpounds of verdure an pleasant ways and shide, as if one walked in well worn ancient water courses. Altogether it is a/mass of hills scooped into innumerable pitsand,cavities, threaded with tiny ponds, bawked,everywhero with hurdy gorse and mizes of heather, wild flowers and grass, splatcfed with knots of noble trees, intersectbd by countless foot- ways, wild and ragged a8/ when the Romans were here, and all soemiogly held togethor by interlacing roadways with rugged sides of rock and sand mndjpines and furze. Around it is a shiging thread of lovely hamlets, stately hal yu%\\vmluuuwunugus. all gabled, ivied, old. Within it on gar- dened hills and blossoming hollows, or at its slumberous edges, whére old_structures like old folk seem to love: to doze insun and shade, are scores of thoge quaint and ancient 1nns, still the most charming heritage of the “merrie Kngland” of long ago; snd the whole region is exhilirating from ius free, fine uncouthness and the ceaseless breozes sweeping from odorous morthern vales, ever inviting o thelr life-giving dalliance the city mullions below, and beating back from these flelds of pleasure the pestilontial breath of grimy London town. Is it any wouder that the huudreds of thousands of London folk who come here give themselves to unrestrained enjoyment, or that this transition from city woes and wails produces such @ joyous delirium to young and old that you will hearon Hampstexd heath more ring- ing almosy ecstatic laughter than in any other place in all the world{ Seated beneath the flagstaff which marks the highest elevatiou of the heath oue can readily understand how the region round- about has been the best beloved of all the near haunts of London naturalists,and why from the days of Gaiusborough and Consta DAY, AUGUST 13, 1893-SIXTEEN are grudgingly but. gou&-mmlwdly flerce in | canvas with many of {ta noblest themes and scencs. It is the one place in England where its groatest city and a vast expanso of typical | English landscapo can be contemplated { almost at the samo gilance, Wido opon to tho wind aund sun stretches vale after valo to the southeast,to the north and to the west. Your circling view extends into seven English shires, Far in the north can be traced tho shire of Hainslop Steevle. in Northamptonshire. The Knocholt Beeches in Kent, the hills and downs of Surrey, the ndon hills of Fssex, the turrots of royal Windsor in Borks, and a church on tho far borders of Oxfordshire, are in full view. Down below olaHampstead, onfogged by the exhalations of hunareds of thousands of chimneys, 1n the distance its myriad roofs like a plain of broken and seothiug lava, lies the metropolis of tho world, the dome of gray old St. Paul's like a peak of fuscless steel in o measureless, incinerating mass. What mind can grasp the magmtudo of human history, of human accomplishment and of human despair within this single cirelo of visiont Whore One Can Find Good Company. Ono s said to always find good company at Hampstead Hoath. Yes, even if alone. You can still sit here by the flagstaff with no one 10 converse with and conjure up a_grewsomo or goodly company. It was at Hampstead Heathas at Hounslow Heath that tho Jack- sons, the Duvals and the Turpins of the six- toenth, soventeonth and cighteenth con- turies cut purses, and throats if.needs be to got them, ana make morry as iords at its inns, some of which are here to minister alike to saint and sinner now. Over against the garden of Wildwood, at the side of Heath Hill road, stands the ancient Gibbet Bim. Upon its huge old arms, many cen- turies, were hung in ohains, when caught, these merry knights of the road. Tho same locality, as you stroll toward Spaniard’s road, will remind you as you look at the little oriel window of Wildwood house, of the saddest year of Lord Chat- hans lifo, tho year when tho Inglish na- tion’s destinies were trombling in the bal- ance and Chatham shut up here like a monk at penance struggled and prayed to be physi- cally new and whole. It was here that Ad dison and his friends passed their summer evenings in the gardens of the old “Bell and Bush tavern. George Stevens, Shakes- peare’s noted commentator, lived and died at_ the ancient “Upper Flask” inn. Dr. Johnson wrote his *Vanity of Human Wishes” down there at Frognall, in the edgo of Hampstead, doubtless spurred o doepest conception of the subject by his giddy wife, who, housed at the Woells, tlhe ancienc Hampstoad Heath spa, constantly quarrelled with her physician about having hor blonde tresses dyed black. In the grove at Highgato still stands the house in which Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived and_died. Richardson lastingly con- nected his memory with the Heath by loaging his heroine, “‘Clarissa Harlowe” at the Upper Flask inn. Lord Manstield, who once resided at Caen Wood, used to give din- ners to the poor, to from four to five hundred at a time, presenting each guest “with a half crown and a quartern loat when dinner was over.” TLord Frskino once lived near the Spaniard’s inn; and this most famous historic mnn of the Heath, which is still standing, owes much of its noteworthines toits old time proprietor inviting the *No- Popery” or Gordon rioters, who, after burn- ing Lord Mansfield’s home in Bloomsbury, came to destroy his rural scat at Caen Wood, into his own cellars, where they be- came so drunk that the rescuing troopers drove them like sheep down the Hampstead hills into frenzied London. Dickens utilized the incident in “Barnaby Rudge,” and he als brought the immortal Pickwick to Hampstead Ponds to pursuc his carnest scientific investigations, Indeed a goodly volume could be written upon these worthies whoso love of broezy Hampstead Heath has left upon it one of its rarost and sweetest charms. Shelley, Huzlitt and Haydon often met here in the eottage of Leigh Hunt in tho Valoof Health. Popo and Murray were often seen upon the high rond from old Hampstead to Highgate, Hornsey and Barnet, - Goldsmith found the Heath favorablo to his muso and sauntered much. in its_thiokets, hollows and rustic lanes. HereJohn Keats lived and here ho wrote “Eve of St. Agnes,” “Ode to tha Nightingale” and “Endymion,” as he sobbed out the closing yenrs of his life be- foro they took him to Home to place his ashes noar the pyramid of Cestius. The mother of Tennyson died in the fino old avenue of limes, Well Walk, and when tho old wolls wero noted as a 5pa tho quality the London “quality” both of purso and intellect, flocked hore to drink the waters, to gamble ' and to flirt. At o later time Thackeray loved to study the foli and thoir manners at the Heath. Dickens and Forster used to *‘muffle themselves up" for a brisk wall over its wina _swept heights and take & “red hot chop for dinner with a glass of good wine” at Jack Straw’s Castle, the Spaniards or other of its fino ol iuns.” And descending Highgate hill from Lauderdale houso the glorious truth of blessed nursery rhyme comes home to us when we see tho very spot, now covered by & massive momorial stone, whero sat poor Dick Whit- tington as he listened to old Bow bells which rang him back to his city toil to be made *thrice lord mayor of London.” Paradlse tor Foor People. It would be a difficult thing to say just when Hampstead Hoath is in its most allur- ing mood to the visitor, For myself I most love to sit here and sée close upon 100,000 folk disporting almost ecstatically within its runs and hollows, with an abandon and hilarity which for the day seom to utterly dispel "the somber shadows of their near work-a-day world. - They are so quickly here from London; tho transformation from prisonment to thrilling Liberty is so inex- pressibly complote, and ull the magic of the sun, the wind, the ruggod wilderness of the Heath, the slumberous splendor of surround- 10g vales is 8o suddenly and so powerfully applied that a sort of physioal and spiritusl delirium posscsses all. Great rough fellows from the waterside, from tho market booths and from the fac tories leap and shout and roll in tho gorse and sand like uncaged animals. There is o smile on evory woman's face. 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