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SIGHTSEERS IS THE TOWER
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PATIENCE OF THE ENGLISHMAN
Wit and Wllin of IKf II erf Katrrs
Kdnmllnn or lafant Mlnd
Inttranienls of ToMare that
Interested Women.
I.OXPON, Auk. 18 The Towfr of Lon
don In the Mecca of the tourist. West
minster Abbey holds Us own a time goes
, on, and you are always aura of finding a
goodly number of Rapdekers tn the Poeta'
Corner, but comparing It with the Tower
tn this respect Is as If you compared a
cemetery with Coney Inland. On bank
holiday, the first week of August, thera
were' 13.XX) visitors, and the average dally
attendance la appromlmately 1,300. The
line extended one day recently from the
gateway past the desk, where very aort
of ban, even to the vanity baa;, Is taken
away to the entrances of the Beauchamp,
White and Ploody towers.
The Tower Is like Etlls Island, usually
reserved by the middle class Kngllshman
to show to his cousin from tin country,
In which classification every place, espe
cially America, Is Included. It Is the Joy
of the personally conducting manager, for
Its sights, like boarding house hash, are
cheap and wholesome.
It takes a long time to get around, and
after climbing up and down stairs even
the most rabid sightseer Is content to go
home and rest. Tor sixpence you can see
the armor worn by Henry VIII and can
stand on the very spot where one of the
kings of England wns at prayer "when
the bloody haxe of the hexecutloncr clove
"Is skull," so you hear a guide tell a party
who are from New Jersey and who stand
one after the other on the Identlral bit of
paving, breathing heavily aa If they
thought themselves back In the Hudson
tunnel.
No Place for Bomb.
This, of course, Is after you see a very
smart young woman, and she Is rather In
the minority, for the smart young women
' don't congregate here, objecting strenu
ously to being separated from a champagne
colored, pigskin, melon shaped hag with
twisted handles. She la with an English
woman who, explains to her at great
length that some ten or twenty years ago
a man come In with a leather kit and
-strolling through the Tower deliberately
took out a dynamite bomb and dropped it
A corner waa knocked off one of the
twenty-foot thick blocks of stone, and
naturally since then London, which estab
lishes precedents and keeps to them, has
guarded the Tower against any similar
experlmce.
"Uut I couldn't get a bomb or anything
else In it," explains the girl, opening It
wide and showing to the guard the con
tenta, which conttlst of two handkerchiefs,
a powder puff and tiny hand mirror, a
stick of carmine for the lips and a pencil
for the eyebrows, a curling Iron, one
dean stock and a package of chewing gum,
with a vinaigrette, amelltng salts and two
falsa puffs, which had blown off and d
not been replaced, as she was too un
selfish to keep the party waiting.
' The. guard examines each carefully, while
, a line of 100 or more English cltlsens keep
perfectly still and do not vole a single
objection,, the only restlveness shown being
from the American contingent, who wonder
none too softly If they are to be kept thers
all day. The London crowd will atay put
It resembles a fir cracker dampened to
prevent mischief. Later one of the beef
v eaters tells you what a well behaved lot of
people formed the Bank Holiday proces
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Behavior of the) Crowd.
"Glva you my word, mlra," he says: "not
a sound, and theyad to stand 'awlf aa
'our before they could get into a pllce.
and when they got hln .there was auoh a
crowd. We Just said to 'em, 'Pawae hon
and hout!' and they pawsed hon and hout
without seeing a thing and not syalng a
word." . ,
'Welt behaved crowd I call that. Don't
believe you 'ave it bty. America, like that?
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And they'd plde sixpence aplrce and thrl
penne fnT earh child. Wonderful. I call
hit. I think the theayter has educated
them, standing for the pit you know. In
ten minutes an Irish cod would be
fighting."
A young Englishman wnn w'srs a sof;
woolen cap and hicyile tweeds, listens at
tentively, and then says lo his companion:
"He's right about that. Jolly right you
know. I was at Southland when the fleet
was there and a single policeman kept a
crowd of R.iO for forty minutes at one of
the gates and there wasn't a protest, not
a man or suffragette tried to pawse. Jolly
sort, I say, too."
One of the guards stops another young
chap who Is smoking a pipe lustily and
asks In a stage whisper which has rather
a tartar brogue about It:
"Are you from GlasgyT" and again, to
the Imperturbable nod that the taciturn
visitor bestows, continues:
"I ken It by tha pe-coo-llar accent. It
was the young leddy with you that gave
the lo-cal-I-tee awa'."
"Young leddlea always gl' everything
awa'," finally states the taciturn one as
he follows his party Beauchamp tower
way, exchanging a stealthy nod with his
confessor.
;an Carriages Explained.
Miss Know It All stops In front of the
plain wooden structure which Is placarded
"Gun carriage which carried the remains
of her Most Grylous Majesty Queen Vlo
torla," and, turning to her party, aays
triumphantly:
".There, that's tha third one we've .seen,
one In Dublin and one at Windsor. I'll be
lieve the story they tell now that there's
a skull of Cromwell on exhibition In one
place when he was a man and another
smaller skull that be wore when he was a
boy."
'Madam," Interrupts the pained and
perturbed voice of a very courtly beef
eater, whose enormous size, which Is not
hidden tn the least by the peculiar cut of
his costume, prevents his looking as ma
jestic as he would like, "Madam, I am
pleased to inform you that you did see
another gun carriage at Dublin and an
other at Windsor. You will allow ma to
explain?"
He gives tha huge trass buckle that
designates his waist line a rack to port
and continues:
"The queen died. If you remember, on
the Isle of Wight, and from Osborne to
the boat she was carried on one of these
when the remains reached Paddlngton they
were carried across London to Waterloo on
another, and when they reached Windsor
it was necessary to have still another, so
you see there are three gun carriages ex
tant at tha present moment of my In
cumbency. Thank you."
The thank you was a sixpence.
Stones Might Barn.
Another beefeater with a sense of humor
holds a warning finger to a cigarette amok
lug tourist.
Sorry, cawnt allow It, sir. Might set
flro to one of the paving stones or a dun
geon wall."
The tourist thanka him for the warning
aa he extinguishes tha causa of alarm.
'Never thought of that. Suppose these
old stones are Jolly well combustible."
"Indeed iicy are, air; they're only thirty
feet thick here, Srr. Never can tell what
damage a thirty-toot thick stone might do
If It caught fire."
A man passes with two small, children
hanging to either "knee of his trousers.
He carries another one aloft and la accom
panied by his wife, behind whom tags
fourth at the and of a straightened arm.
The man is 'turning the leaves of bis
Baedeker with a wet thumb and his face
is a map of wrinkles. The wife's shrill
voice demands: "Where's 'Whistler's
Mother, V
"My dear," you hear the man say, with
an added line of worry crlsa crossing his
noble brow. "That waa at the Luxem
bourg."
"Oh, so It was. We've been there,
haven't weT"
The man changes the child and Baedeker
wets the other thunmu and saya; "Yea,
my dear," patiently.
His children are being eductated!
Others are, too. There are hundreds of
them, all ages and Blsee, and before the
tour of the tower Is over another one of
the beefeaters confesses to you that per
sonally they make him tired.
. Bothers of m Beefeater.
"It's this way. Sometimes there's a
whole school' of 'am, and they've read up
about the Tower, and they know more
than I ever did or expect to or want to,
and they aak me all sorts of Questions,
and I'm expected to answer 'am right off.
If I don't get tha figures right they lawff
at me. Then the little onea about B or I
are Just aa bad, they gat tired and are
afraid of the dungeons.
"I don't see why children have to come
to the Tower. Foreigners, too. tilnce the
Intint cordial was established by the king
lots of French people come here. Never
used to see 'em. I have my troubles.
Thank you."
The thank you Is for the sixpence.
A courier with a P. C. party is saying,
as he points with a knowing thumb:
"This was the window where 'e heacaped
tha night berore ' was be'eaded."
so he aid escape?" asks a P. C,
breathless with the thrill of recalled a-
tory.
But I don t see," says another, "how If
ha escaped he could have "
The voice of the courier, "We will now
proceed to the room where Lady Jane
Grey, for twelve days a queen, waa Im
prisoned with her young husband."
Sources of Information.
In front of the cases where are shown
the delicate and charming methods of ob
talrung Information and stimulating the
memory which were the mode in the Mid
die Ages, antong them the thumb screw,
the rack and other Inquisitorial tortures,
a row of.womon hover with glued eyes
and breathless lips. Just why this partic
ular part of the Tower should attract them
It would need a course in psychology to
determine, but, ignoring the mure spectac
ular places, they examine with the keenest
Interest every detail of then articlea,
many of which have grew. Bo me stains.
There is a small dull held by the tips of
har fingers and her ankles to the ends of
one of the racks, the limbs stretched to
their utmost tension to show the method
of operation. This is especially well liked
and the row looks quite Indignant when It
Is broken Into by a breexy young person,
who says:
"My, but what a good way to bant! You
could g"et stretched out an inch or two
every Cay. I'll wager that's what they did
It for. Inquisition! As soon as a titan's
wife got too fat, like as not he put her
In one of those arrangements, pulled it aa
far as It would go and said be was doing
It for her soul. I know them. They're Just
the same now as Uicy were then. You can't
tell me."
Roots of Royalty.
In front of the enormous glass cases
which hold the robes of the King and
Queen worn on the coronation there Is
always a big crowd. A mother explains
thera to precocious child of the enfant
terrible order, whe stands winding one
leg about another like a tired flamingo.
after bis mother died the King
wore this robe." she saya.
"But I thought you put on black when
your mother died," returns the thild, ''J m
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Tomorrow, Monday, we innugurate our twenty-second annual September Furniture Sale
FAR SUBPASS1NQ ANY SALE event of the ENTIRE YEAli. It is an opportune time that
offers special inducements to the thrifty and economical buyer. This great September S.ile
represents a DISTINCT SAVING TO YOU OF FROM 25 TO 50. It's a sale of such
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SAVE MONEY ARE VASTLY GREATER.
s.rJIagnificentJp18 Pedestal Extension
Table 12.50
59.75
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50c WEEKLY
T1119 DRESSER Is made
of solid, choicely selected
oak and has ' three large
roomy drawers and very
best of construction. lias
French bevel plate mirror
set In carved standards.
Is easily worth
I14.6U Septem
ber sale prloe
quanti
ties of
all ad-m-tised
Goods
S0.50
SEPTEMBER SALE OF
60o Ingrain Carpet, heavy
quality. Sept. sale prloe .. .
76c all wool Ingrain Carpets, beat
quality.. September sale CO.
prloe 33C
$1.00 Brussels Carpet, very heavy
quality. Beptemeer saie cq.
noe
Ivet Carpeta, very pretty pat
terns. 11.60 values. Sep- OQn
tember sale prloe u
$7.00 art reversible Ruga, 9x12
else, ptpfemoer saie 17 qs
vwaww
Rugs, very heavy
$71.50
Three Rooms Furnished
Complete
for ....
These 3-roora outfits
are positively the best
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everything necessary
for starting house
keeping. Also include
beside the regular
furniture and carpets,
crockery, tinware, sil
verware, etc.
Terns 7.50 Cisb, $5 Monthly
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tend this sale.
CARPETS. RUGS AND DRAPERIES
39c
prloe
$10 Ingrain
quality. September e DC
sale prloe
Axmlnster Carpets. Very
patterns. 1.60 values.
September sale prloe
pretty
SSc
$15 Brussels Rugs, very large as
sortment. September tn 7C
sale prloe IU.I3
$18.60 Brussels Rugs, 9x13 size,
' good quality. Septem- f 11 Cfl
bar sale prloe l J.SU
40c OH Cloth, for bath room or
kitchen. September J7.
eale prloe
tOc Linoleum, very heavy cq.
quality. Sept. sale prloe. ..' 6
$2.60 Nottingham Lace Curtains,
full size. Septem- f 0 0
her sale prloe, pair. l.Ha
$5 Lace Curtains, fine texture.
September eale price, S2 95
per pair mi
$7.60 Tapestry Portieres, beauti
ful patterns. Septem- f4 QC
bar sale prloe, per pair. . .d.OJ
TSaUCS, 60e WXSXX.T.
This beautiful, round, pedestal extension table
Is exactly like illustration and positively the
greatest value ever offered by any house In
a substantial table. It la made of solid oak
and Is very highly polished.
Former price of this TABI.B
was $18. September sale price..
$12.50
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GOODS.
Our great 8EITKMBKK
BALK offers you AN K.V-
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TUN1TY to buy many ar
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ment at UKKATLY ki
Dl'CKI) riilCKN. Our new
fall stock Is now most
complete and ready for
your very careful Inspec
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during this sale Is
FULLY GUARANTEED
and Is sold on Us merits.
All goods are EXACTLY
AS DESCRIBED AND
ILLUSTRATED. Y O V
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1NG DURING TIUS
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This COTTCX Is mads of the best grade of
Chase leather and upholstered over an all
steel construction. The frame Is of aollil
quartered oak. heavy and massive and of tha
Peat worsmansmp. roaiuveiy
never offered before I
$18. September sale price
COR Gil For This Special
Steel Range
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We have thousands
of other items such as
Iron Beds, Extension
Tables, Dressers, Buf
fets, China Closets,
Chairs and Rockers,
etc., all offered you at
a great discount dur
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These BTEEI, BASOI8 are made
of selected steel of a special gauge
and are guaranteed In every re
spect. They are positively the btist f v
low priced BTEEI. SAHOB on the 1
market today. Have alx large 8- V J
Inch lids and an upper warming
closet. A large u-im-n over
full h best oa lining. They are
gantly nickel trimmed and are ac-
tunlly a $41) value, but are offered
during ttils great
SEPTEMBER
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going to put on black when you die. Torn
had a broad stripe on his coat when"
"I didn't mean the very day she died,
but when he ascended tbe throne he"
"I don't see how he could climb In that;
he'd trip up. Say is that real ermine, ma?
Tom's nurse had a piece round her hat
last winter and Tom said It waa cat fur.
It looks Just like cat fur."
The mother tries. to draw his attention
to other portions of the equipment. "See,
that's the crown, dear."
'That thing? Tom's uncle wore one
when he waa In that show. But he car
ried a spear, and the crown was a better
looker than that. Ain't there a place, ma,
where they chop off people's heads T Tom
wrote me there was. Said his father'd
seen it"
"Yes dear. It's this way."
Two Knglish girls stop and wonder In
front of the gorgeous velvet and Jewelled
apparel.
'Lovely! Perfectly sweetl! Jolly, I say!!!
Aren't they frightfully long, but they didn't
harff to drawg them far, you see."
A 10-year-old girl corrects her mother's
manner, which offends the sense of dignity,
acquired since she stepped on British soli.
"Don't point about so, maw I We look like
Germans In New York. You know how they
always have their heads In the air staring
at the skyscrapers. Feople'U know we're
strangers If you do."
Modesty of Heroism.
In a quiet corner you stop to apeak to a
withered Beefeater whose breast carries
a long, horizontal row of medals. He ex
plains some of them, and la especially
proud of the one that designates him a
veteran of tbe Lucknow relief.
"I don't suppose you hear much about
that in America?" he inquires. "No reason
why you should. It waa fifty-two years
ago and we move, very quickly nowadays,
but tt'a good to be here when you look
back and think where you were then."
There are forty of the Beefeaters all to
gether, ten living outside the walls, their
extreme age making them useless for any
service. One of the thirty active mem
bers has Just completed the census of the
Tower and Is very proud of the task.
"You aee, It Is only done once In ten
years," he explains.
By his reckoning there are living at
present within the Tower soma 1,200 peo
ple, Including the Beefeaters themselves,
their families and the members of the bat
talion, which numbers some 800 men. Thera
is a long waiting list and It is said to be
very difficult to get one of the Beefeater
vacancies, some of the applications being
in flfti-en or twenty years before the ap
plicant hears anything from It.
One must have been- In servlcs twenty
one years and the application be made
with a rank as low as that of sergeant.
The position is for Ufa and the duties,
which are more spectacular than real, are
supposed to be a gracious reward for long
and faithful service. Most of the Beef
eaters have many medals and none of
them needs wear an undeoorated coat.
The curloua uniform, which one of the
American girls describes as "a perfect
suffragette costume," la for every day
wear of scarlet and blue and on special
occasions they put on a very gorgeous
substitute of scarlet and gold. These spe
cial occasions are the annual holidays. In
cluding the king's birthday, muster day,
Christmas, Ascension and Easter.
NOT AS BAD AS PICTURED
Grsslsia of 93 Lets Go m Happy
Exclamation oa lier first
Vblt to Coney.
After planning for years to visit Coney
Island, which she had never seen, "Grand
ma" Ooodwln, who la M years old and llvos
at &2J Straight street, Peterson, N. J.,
irade the trip Friday. She had the time
of her life, and It did not coat her a cent.
"Grandma" Ooodwln had talked for a
long lime about guUig to Cfaney Usland. In
(fare POM
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the lawyers' offices she eaned she had "I'm 'Grandma' Goodwin of Taterson and
heard so many stories of its grandeurs that
(he finally grew ashamed of not having
visited the place which everybody else In
Peterson seemed to have seen.
When the men who employed "Grandma"
discovered she had never made the trip
they said to her:
"Tou go there tomorrow."
She got on a White line ear and rods to
Hoboken. When the conductor came
through she said;
I'm taking my first trip to Coney Island."
"I got your fare once," said the con
ductor, and he stood and chatted for a
while, telling "Grandma" some of the sights
at Coney Uiland that she could not affoid
to misa.
Now, Strang as It may seem to younger
persons who have Journeyed to Coney Is
land. "Grandma" found It impossible to
pay any fare ut any point on the route,
lie "I'm Crandnut Goodwin of Peterson,
and I'm taking my first trip to Coney Is
land" got her all the transportation sho
needed, and plenty of Information besides.
When she reached the Island she eaw
everything, but could spend nothing. The
showmen wouldn't take her money and last
night she said she had had three eupa of
tea. two glasses of milk and a trip In "one
of thoae auto things" without being allowed
to pay.
"When I tried to pay," she said, "the
men Just looke at nit and saldj 'Go right
In, grandma. It's against the rules for
anybody as young aa you to pay.' They
are a very nice lot of men at Coney island,
polite and friendly. I know I'm not young.
It waa just their way to say I was, but I
wish all cf them could know that they have
given a tired old woman the only real holi
day she's had In many years." Ntw York
Herald.
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