20 TITR OMA1I/V / DAILY UEE : SUNDM , Al'UIL 2IJ , ISM-TWENTY MGES.
LIFE IN RURAL ENGLAND
Awaj from the Thunders of Mills and
Clash of Oommorco.
GLORIOUS GROUPINGS AND SYLVAN SCENES
Altonmllnff riiUohooiU of .Modern 1'lctlun
Ilegnrdlnc Anrlriit Vlllncrs nnil TliMr
Folk ilniirnpyliif ; In
Qimlnt HUI | Historic.
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LONDON , April 1U. [ Correspondence of Tnr.
BEK. ] In my preceding article on Kugllsl.
villages anil their folk 1 KJIVO sonu- account
ot seven English villages , niul tlicso In
merest outline. Seven huiulrctl Is truly
nearer the number I have personally visited.
Eich one could furnish through leisurely
study , for hrusli or pen , abundant material
for u winsome volume.
Some writers would have us bcllovo that
English villages wcro 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
Ji mellow and old and peed ; that the
thunders of the mills had drowned all till-
clear old country sounds ; that commercial
England , with html and cruel hand , had
effaced almost the last vestlgo of the erst
sweet and charming countrysides ; and.that
brick and iron , stone and steel , co.il and
Urumniagcm , varied now and then by noble
man's demesne or gentleman's seat , were
the characteristic features of an English
landscape.
r As goodly a proportion of English as
American penplo have come to accept this
as true. Hut it is astoundingly false , as
any one who will really saunter , not rush ,
about England may know. Hooks arc largely
responsible for this. English fiction , like
American fiction , of from a half century to
n century ago was replete with pictures of
village life and character. When Charlotte
Hrontu laid down her pen , and the labor of
George Eliot who was to the early Vic *
torlan ago , at least in degree , what Shakespeare -
pearo was to the Elizabethan was done ,
mastership in this school of delineation
scorned to cease.
Neither America nor England has since
produced a lasting work of fiction upon rural
scenes and lowly folk. Novelists have wal
lowed in altruism , psychological phenomena ,
subtleties of crime and its detection , hideous
Balaclousncss , positive and comparative
religion , the heroics of agnosticism and
Inlldellty and in the shredded and be
draggled warp and woof of ultraintonso
metropolitan life. So those who rely on in
telligent llction to reflect reality have felt
that the English village alul its folk had
surely passed away.
Again , the great world of activities has
como constantly to intelligent attention ,
through the press , the reviews and through
statistical volumes , largely to the exclusion
of the great underlying world of fact and
scntinr.'nt. In America the stupendous af
fairs and progress of our great cities have
nlmost obliterated the memory of some of
the sweetest old nooks In all the world the
historic and beautiful hamlets of Now Eng
land , of the eastern and even of the southern
and middle states. Yet they arc all just as
they once were , prettier and tenderer for
their pensive-ness ahd increasing age. Here ,
similarly , everything is London. Leeds , llir-
mlngham , Manchester , Liverpool , Hull and
that host of practically new manufacturing
towns and cities of Yorkshire and Lanca
shire.
The American commercial mind and the
English commercial mind have heard for n
quarter of a century of naught else than
their Ingots and spindles , pottery and looms ,
fabrics and ships , lockouts and walkouts ,
depression and expansion and their tre
mendous trade superlatives of every hard
and harassing description.
But the material and literary .fact still re
mains that all the thousands of ancient
English villages , and with not a half bun
dred exceptions , are hero just as they were
at thq beginning of the century , and just as
wo have nored over them In the best old
works of English fiction. Not only this , but
hundreds of modern villages with winsome
olden architecture in the habiliment of
Elizabethan and oven earlier Tudor times ,
enriched with luxurious parking and Intelli
gent floriculture , and windows lllled with
ruddy English faces have been added to the
mossier olden stock.
Even in the congested districts of Lan
cashire , Yorkshire , northern Warwickshire ,
Staffordshire and Shropshire , not an ancient
village has passed from sight , save where a
town or city has grown within and around
It ; and , where factory towns arc so thick
that clusters of chimney stacks crowd every
acre of the horizon like giant spears above
some mighty encircling camp , there between
still stand the ancient hamlets , more witch
ing for the grimy fellowship of trade , an
tndless solace to eye and heart of thos > o who
ceaseless toil.
Therefore when the lively American who
"does" England in a week tells us that the
rural England of literature is no more , ho
tells us what perhaps some Hyde Park era
tor , railway station porter or traveling sales
man has told him , but still something which
ho docs not know ; and when the London lit
erary dilettante falls upon and disposes of
rural England in a single breezy magazine
article or smart review , ho commits for a
needed stipend of ten w twenty pounds little
ihort of a literary crime.
Such as these and better still all those
who love the truly beautiful and winsomely
picturesque In any land , without seeking
Quixotic quests among political and social
problems , should certainly pass at least one
summer among English villages. Hundreds
can bo found oven along the lines of rail
way. Leaving these at any station , hi
t-oacli , bv trap , upon bicycle , or more advan
tageously and fuller of elation than all , 01
your own good legs , every line old hedge
bordered highway will furnish you ai
ustounuing revelation in every half-day's
drive or walk ,
What wondrous Journoymgs into the past
nro thus afforded. What splendid pages o
history are thus reopened for it has been ii
and about English villages rather thai
in towns that English history has
been made. What challenges arc
prompted to the great and the immortal to
comb from their wraithlands and walk
beside you where they once dwelt. And ho
you find that all you knew of books has in
expresslbly lacked In the true color and feel
Jug until you thus wed presence and actual
ityvith the toneless tale of words !
The wealth of number of these older
villages In Kent alone would confound the
Dryasdusts and the Iconoclasts of rural Eng
land. It is with a thrill of delight that you
wander through Saltwood , peoplng out
between leafy hills upon the glorious sea
Lymlngo. mossy ami still beside the most
ancient church of southern Kent , so ancient
thnt In its walls
are actually seen ovet'i
specimen of ecclesiastic architecture fron
Saxon to Perpendicular , so am lent still thai
St. Edllbcrga , one of Its patron saints am !
daughter of the Saxon King Ethelbert , who
reigned more than 1,000 years ago , lies
buried'within : Evlth , with its unique old
houses , its winding lanes of green , hanks of
chalk , shadowy combes and tender uplands ;
Cohham. leafiest , snuggest and prettiest of
all Kentish villages , with its lordly park , its
. lately- towered chun.li and brasses ofOOO
lyoars lirnicmory of the noble Cobhams and
Its ' "Leather IJottel"
Inn made famous : n
the Immortal pages of Pickwick ; beautiful
old Shrone , girdled with massive elms
and richest orchard bloom ; and 100 more ,
eel along the lano-girt downs , clustering in
the woody Weld , or nestling mining the
Kentish orchards and hop gardens , with
their rows of cottages with white-washed
walls , dormer windows , thatched roofs and
garden fronts each a maze of fuschlHs , pinks ,
carnations and roses ; and all of them from
100 to 1XX ( ) yean old.
> \ ho is thc.ro to fitly describe or paint the
droning old villages of that curious English
Region "variously known as the "Norfolk
liroads , " "Tho Dread District" and the
"Norfolk and Suffolk Kens , " where , as at
Dllluuu and Huston , many an old daub-ami-
wattle cottage may still be seen ) It is a
Jamiof lagoons ; of grassy dykes ; of ghostly
windmills us huge and as numerous as In
Holland } oiricliuud low lying farm itcad-
Ings Interspersed by ' 'broads" of sedgy ,
shallow lnlcs ; ; of mighty herds of cnttla nnd
slioopi of duck , widgeon , mallard nnd coot ;
if picturesque Inns-of-call half hidden
nmong copses of willows ; of ruined castles ,
ibbeys nnd priories whoso ancient monts nrn
now serving ns market gardeners canals ; of
gray old hamlets set nlwut with clumps of
nollnrd oaks ; and of n peasantry ns simple ,
Jrnvo nnd true us In Rood old Sir John t ns-
tolf's diiys not Shakespeare's unctuous
knnve of the "Merry Wives , " but of the real
Pastolf who vigorously fought the battle of
Herrings mid soundly drubbed the French.
The eventide pictures from some of these
old waterside hamlet porches lire worthy
the brush of n Turner or a Millet. As the
sun goes down In forests of waving reeds , it
flames the thatches of hamlets on opposite
shore , weirdly llehts thenrmsof the spectral
windmills , bringing to n looming nearness
the grim Norman towers of far olden
churches , or gilds the livid top of some
medieval ruin as with gold. As It slnlts
from sight the waters of the Hroads lire for
a moment purple , then pitchy black , when
Instantly the- stars are shining in the depths
above mid from the waters beneath with n
shimmering luster enveloping all. Then the
songs and" chirps of myriad Insects : the
whirr and splash of late-homing water fowl ;
and the witching , whispered soughing of the
oreozo In the rushes and the reeds.
Up In Cumberland ahd Westmoreland ,
what loving wraiths of memory are conjured
when basking in the glowlmr beauty of slum
berous , verdure-dud , biossom-liowered Kcs-
wleic , Grasmero , Kydnl , Amblesldo and
Bowness ! Hero in old Keswick town
dwelt , and sang , and lies burled in
Crossthwalto church yard , near the mur-
murlngs of the Groin he ! > o loved , the high
soulod poet of pensive remembrance and
meditativernlin. . Hobert Southoy. Hero ,
too , the unhappy Coleridge passed the most
fruitful , though still the most miserable ,
years of his baleful slavery to a deadly drug ;
and with his girl wife. Harriet , Shelley hero
knew the only happy hours of his unfortu
nate life. In aiirient Grasmere Grasmero
of ancient "rush bearing" fame ; Grasmero
with , perhaps , the oldest and certainly the
quaintest church in England : Grasmcre
where the brnvc old dame soundly walloped
the prince of Wales for "hurrying'1 her
sheep Ihomus do Quincey lived In his
dream life madness ; and. in St. Oswald's
church yard sleep Hartley Coleridge and
William Wordsworth , beside the beauteous
Uotha.v , which , leaping from sequestering
meadows , gives back along the old church
wall the deathless songs they sang.
That ono whoso memory gives to the
organ tones of the two cascades of Hydal
their wondrous heart thrilling power , who is
first and last when your eyes of fancy pene
trate the past , Is Wordsworth , who lived on
Kydal mount , above the hamlet , for 40 sunlit
years. Sturdy , iconoclastic , yet true and
practically Christian if slid heretic , Harriet
Martineau stands bright and clear In the
picture among the blossoms 'of songful
Amblcside. Christopher North , with his
hugo frame and benign face , as if the very
spirit of the lovely legion shone from his
kindly eyes , makes thcsu village wavs sun
nier for his strong , sure tread. With him ,
though later , you will see another one , linn ,
calm , tender , noble , ono who through his
la burs at Kugby swept forever from the
British educational system the rule of
brutality and dread , lofty souled , noble Dr.
Arnold ; while old Bowness , huddling be
tween the highway and the fell side , is
sweeter still bccauso you see through its
tiny cottage panes the wraith of good
Feilcin Homans , with a tinge of sadness in
her pallid , patient face.
Pleasant indeed is a week's idle loitering
among thi ! villages of Surrey. Some of the
most picturesque timbered cottages of KIIR-
iand can be found among these ancient
hamlets. Sleepy old Godaltning was once a
nest of fullers homes , and numbers of these
habitations are still in good preservation.
At Shore , the former home of the earls of
Ormoml and the noble house of Audloy , and
roundabout are wondrously interesting
lanus of cottages. liesides , there are
Wonersh , with its line gables and chimneys
and charmingly picturesque old mill house ;
Iluslcmern with ils high and graceful chim
neys ; Uhidclingford , where glass was llrst
made in England , with its line fourteenth
century collates and famous old Crown
inn ; Witloy , with its church tower sur
mounted by a spire as quaint as that of
Stoke Pogis , and its cottages which are in
every artist's sketch book ; Alford , most
primitive of Surrey villages , with its curious
ironwork and moats ; and , with si-ores more ,
winsome old Cranlelgh , where , at Baynards ,
Jane Kopcr , wife of the younger Sir Kit want
Bray , so long kept the head of her father ,
ill-fated Sir'l'homas More , which was finally
deposited in St. Dunstans , Canterbury.
You will never heed the passing hours if ,
afloat upon the Avon , you set out in quest of
English villages within the western shires.
The thatches of the hamlets le.in every
where along the Avon almost to the river's
iirink. You will have no need for an inn.
With your yeoman companion you will bo
welcomed everywhere at night among the
village peasantry. By-aivi-by you como to
the vales among the Cotswolds. Then will
you sec hamlets and villages dotting the val
leys , embedded in gardens , perched upon the
heights , in settings of lush orchards , waving
fields within checkered lines of hawthorn
hedges or denser rows of limes , and these in
turn backed by oanks of forest primeval ; all
in such droning quiet , ample content anu
smiling opulence that , full of the wluov exul
tation of it nil , you again nnd again irresisti
bly exclaim , "Here is Arcady at last I1'
lu Essex ono could wander for a whole
summer and never tire of its mossj nooks
like Thaxted , with its Ions straggling street
of many-gabled homes , Its exquisite church ,
its strange Moot hall and its noble relic ,
Ilorham hull ; Copgesliall , with its moldering
.ibboy ruins and curious "Woolpack" inn ;
Saffron Waldcn , hotbed of Essex supersti
tions , with its ruined castle , wonderful old
houses and antique Sun inn which has set
the Essex antiquarians endlessly by tlu
ears ; Finchlnglleld with its Jumble of cot-
tatrcs piled ono upon another and its quaint
timber-built alms houses , like those of
Coventry ; St. Osyth , with its remavkablo
church , splendid old priory and marvelously
beautiful gatehouse ; and Little Dunmow ,
straggling , tiny hamlet that it Is , but famous
the world over for its olden "Flitch of
Bacon" pri/.e for conjugal felicity.
And 1C all these were not enough to make
you know the Indescribably interesting and
beautiful rural England of today como hero
where the shires of Bucks , Berks and Sur
rey Join , and saunter but for a day round
about royal Windsor.
At Chertsoy. but uino miles distant , once
famous for its abbey , lived and died the
pout Cowley , while Albert Smith , author of
"Christopher Tadpole" and many other
charming works of fiction , was born in the
same quaint old village. D.itchot , on the
Ttiames , about u mile from Windsor , has the
remains of a very ancient monastery , while
Date-hot Mead was rendered famous by
Shakespeare in his "Merry Wives of Wind
sor. "
But four miles distant is the quaint and
sequestered vlllugo of Horton. in this , at
Berkyn Manor house , HvudiMlltou , with his
fat her and mother when they retired from
business in 10W : , and here were written his
"Comus. " "Arcades " " " "
.
, "Lycidas. "I/Alle
gro" and "II Penseroso. " At Old Windsor ,
two miles down the river , is ono of the most
impressive- old yew and Cyprus shaded
churchyards in England. Its Moat Farm
was he hunting scat of Saxon khigs. Mrs.
Kobinson , the authoress and the unfortu
nate Perdita , is burled here , and its Beau
mont loigo ! was the former homo of Warren
Hastings.
Bray is but llvo miles distant , up the
Thames The "Vicar of Br.iy , " ono Sym-
on-.la. was that spiritually vivacious cleric
who changed his religion four times , in suc
cessive reigns , that ho might die in his
"living , " At Hoaeonsllold , to the north near
Wilton park , was the homo of Waller , the
poet , and 'Burke , the statesman. Here at
Slough , Iwo miles to the north , U Uio house
occupied so long by Sir William Heischeland
you will sue hero a part of his great forty-
foot telescope ; while two miles further ,
beyond meadows green , nestling In clumps of
yew and oalc. is the olden humeof the Pcnns ,
near which is the mossy old parish church
and hamlet of Stoke Pogis , where was writ
ten the purest and sweetest elegy to bo
found in the'English tongue.
EnnAit tj. WAKEMAN.
o-
The earliest library was that of Nobucha < =
noz/ar. Every book was a brick , engraved
with cuneiform chuvncteis.
Husy people have no time , ana sensible people
ple have no in lination to use pills that make
them sick a day for every dose tnoy Uike.
Thoyhavo leurnod that the use of Do Witt's
Little Early Hisors does not interfere with
thcirhealth byoiusliu miusa.i , p.ilu or grip
ing. These little pllis are perfect in action
and results , regulating the stomach and
bowels so that headaches , dizziness and
lassitude are prevented. They cleanse the
blood , clear the complexion anu tone up the
system. Lots of health in these little fel
low * .
OENTItALIZED CAPITAL.
A I.Ut of ( Hitnutlo Triut * thnt llnvn drown
fi | III I hi * Country.
Much has boon written of the growing
tendency of private corporations to pool Is
sues for the purpose of controlling prices
throughout this country. The formation of
trusts Is the onler of the day. A recent , ar
ticle in the Now Nation enumerates some ot
the leading trusts with estimated capital.
The following prefatory statement is also
'
given by that'paper :
Free competition has fostered the monopo
lization of In lustrles to stlch an extent that
the price of nearly every necessity of life Is
fixed by n private trust. Wo 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 capitalization is continually chang
ing , as the stock usually increases as fast as
new companies arc- taken into the combina
tion. While our figures are In many cases
estimated , they may bo safely accepted as
the approximate capitalization for the pur
poses of discussing the business situation.
Several trusts wo havonotcven attempted to
estimate. Whether wo look at the moral or the
commercial side of the question , the disap
pearance of small industries is alarming.
Take the white lead trust , which Is known
on the Stock Exchange as the Mitlonal Lead
company. Its outstanding certificates
aggregate $ ! 0,000K)0. ( ) In ISS'Jthe trust con
trolled a majority of the stock In thlrty-ono
companies. Including the plants of three
smelters and ono rollncry for the protection
of pig lead. Over $ S.)01'UOJ ( ) of the stock is
water. There Is probably not a company of
the original thlrty-ono whloh Is not the re
sult of focal competition and rivalry disas
trous to small concerns. Tariff reduction
tends to solidify rather than destroy the
trust. Of the 4.047 recogni/.ed millionaires ,
only l.liil won their fortunes In protected in
dustries.
Trusts. Capital.
Dressed beef and provisions ? IOO,000IKX )
Standard oil HOKK,0K ( ) ( )
Sugar refiners ' . Tfi.OOO.OOO
Iron league GO.UtXUXX )
Illinois steel fiO.OOO.OOO
General electric W,000,000 )
Steel rail f > 0,000X ( > 0
Sheet copper 40.000,000
Cottonseed oil 41,000,000
Tombstone ICi.OOO.OOO
Gas ( New York ) : , < MHI,00 ( )
Distilling and Cnttlofoedlng 3i.000.000
Water works pumping machinery : < oHi,000 ( ) )
Ckarettc U.'iOlKIHK ( )
Smellers tt.1,000,000
Merchants' steel 'J.I.OOO.OOO
Mineral water 25,000,000
Colorado coal combine 20.000,000
Pork combine 20,000,000
Copper Ijlgot 20,000,000
Marble 'combine 20.00,1,000 ,
Linseed oil 18,000,000
Hibbon 18,000,000
Axe ir.,000,000 ,
Bituminous coal ir.,000,000
School furniture lf > ,0d,000 ( ) ,
Condensed milk 10,000,000
Boiler. . * ' - . 15,000,000
Cordage 15,000,000
Crockery 15,000,000
Preserved jelly manufacturing. . . 12,000,000 ,
Goss-imor rubber 12,000,000
Biscuit and cracker 12,000,000
Tube 11,500UOO
Lithograph 11,500,000
Bolt and nut 10,000,000
Brass , 10,000.000
Electric supply 10.000,000
Fur combine 10,000,000
Pitch 10.000,000
Tissue paper 10.000,1X10
Win' 10,000,000
Wood screw 10.000,000
Barbed wire 10,000HK ( )
Hleachery combine 10.000,000
Cotton due ! : 10.000.000
Cash register 10,000,000
Cartridge 10.000,000
Starch 10,000,000
Iron and coal 10,000.000.
Typefounders (1,000,000 (
Preservers combine 8,000.000
Straw board 8.000.000
Umbrella 8,000,000
Celluloid 8,000,000
Plato glass 8,000,0K ( )
Flint glass " 8,000,000
Match 7,500,000
Cotton thread combine 7,000,000
Safe 7,000,000
Rubber trust No. 2 " . ; 7,000,000
Alcohol ; 5,000,000
American corn harvesters 5.000,000 ,
Buckwheat 5,000,000
Button 5,000.000
Paper box 5,000,000
Patent leather 1. . . 5,000,000
En velopo 5,000,000
Pulp 5,000,000
Saw 5,000.000
Hock salt 5OUO,000
Green glass 4,000,000
Steel and iron 4,000,000
Oatmeal 11,500,000
Soda water apuaratus 3,500,000
Trunk . 3,000,000
Cotton press JI.OOO.OOO
Lime a.000,000
Carbon candle ; i,000,000
Sanitary ware : ! ,000,000
American wringer 2,500,000
Broom 2,500,000
Safe No. 2 2,500,000
Oil cloth ? , BOO,000
Acid 2,000,000
Borax 2.000.COO
Brush 2,000,000
Confections 2.000,000
Dye and chemical combine 2,000,000
Electrical combination No. 2 2,000,000
Glove 2.000,000
Rubber , general shoo 2,000,000
Locomotive tire 2,000,000
Lumber 2,000,000
Manilla tissue 2,000,000
Morocco leather 2,000,000
Paper bag 2,000,000
School book 2,000,000
Sewer pipe 2,000,000
Sheet steel 2.000.000
Yellow pine 2,000,000
Pocket cutlery 2,000,000
Harvester 1,500,000
Cutlery 1,500,000 ,
Sash door 1,500,000
CasUet and burial goods 1,000,000
Vapor stove 1,000,000
Naval stores combine 1,000,000
Fork and hoe 1,000,000
Fruit jar 1,000,000
Salt 1,000,000
Hinge 1,000,000
Sandstone 1,000,000
Wrapping paper 1,000,000
Wheel 1,000,000
Castoroil 500,000
Hop 500,000
Leather board 500,000
Snath SOO.OOO
Soap 500,000
Sponge 500,000
Whip 500,000
Indurated liber 500,000
Money In IIU Hoodoo Itiipiit-.ttliiu.
A hoodoo with a mitinnnl reputation is"
ono of the most conspicuous ohiiractors
in I'hlludelphiii. IIo is ono of the most
successful fakirs in the business. Black
Hills diamonds , cheap jewelry and gnv-
ters are his specialties and ho plies his
trade from public house to public liouso
with not a little success. IIo frequents
several saloons patronized chielly by
gamblers and they prove his best cus
tomers. To ward oil the ill oll'ccts of
the hoodoc they cross his palm with sil-
voi1 and rid themselves of his brassy
wares as quickly as possible , firmly bo-
lioviny that destruction follows in their
train. The peddler knows that lib pres
ence is distasteful to the sports and ho
takes euro to intrude when ilnd where-
over possible. His intrusion ia the kind
that pays.
o
TilttoolllK Yoillur .NeweulHlldllM. .
A Now Xealuml hey of 15 hits his face
nearly covered with tattooltiy. The
New /eulundors tattoo the face and
hands , but very rarely touch the body.
Their moth' d of tatt-joliif , ' is peculiar
and differs from that of any other tropical
country. The work of tattooing is done
with a sharply oointed instrument ,
which is dipped lirst in a colored lluid.
The point of the instrument is placed on
the face and is driven int > the bkin by n
sharp blow from a piece of wood. This
is repeated ugnln and atruin until the
tattooing is done. The process makes
the skin very sore aiU only a little can
bo done at a lime. The New Zcahtnderu
tattoo in rings. And the girls are oven
more gorgeously decorated than the
boys. Tattooing is Hourly always done
before the boys and girls have com
pleted their growth , so that the colored
pigment becomes firmly fixed in the
texture of the bkin.
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