The Weekly Democrat from Natchez, Mississippi • Page 8

The Forum forNovembvr. Markets uv Telegrai. 1 AKE1IAFS WANDERINGS IlHioDa Fires hi OW.Teluud. Cleveland, Oct. 29-Flre broke out in the cupola of the Euclid Avenue Opera use at 8 o'clock this morning from a cause at present unknown, and at this hour, 10 that beautiful playhouse Is In ruins.

The bouse fronts on Sheriff street, but Its entrance is thro' the Heard block from Euclid avenue. It Is surrounded by high buildings on three sides. Every steamer In the city was called to the Are on the first alarm, and J. W. Yate, Tullahoma, Tenn.

writes: '-It iloes me good to praise Botanic Blood Balm. It cured me ol are abscess of tue lungs ami asthma that troubled me two years and ttiat Other" remedies failed to benltt." It Is a great household remedy, and' should be kept In every home. Mr. Norman Cheatman, Waverly, Sussex. (Jounty, who has never been without it (or twenty years subscribes toll) Is opinion.

He gays: "Our family has-been using Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup for twelve years and a-e never without it in the horisp. It Is invincible. At no Old World shrine will your heart so leap and thrill with supremely gratified expectancy. There is elation, indeed intoxication, in the perfection of your realization.

I am sure your experience is an universal one. Expressions falling from the lips of differing types of Americans in my presence, on different occasions, fully illustrate this. One was by a prim Ohio matron, who looked upon the old and new manor nouses and then the little church and yard in a matter of fact way for a time, and then said briskly to her handsome daughter standing near: "If Gray had ever written about this place different than he did he would have been a plaguy fool, and that's all I've got to say about it!" A plain New England "schoolma'am" came. She had walked from Slough to save carriage hire. She had saved and scrimped many years to get to a few of these Old World shrines.

"Oh," she said, with tears of joy filling her gray, fine eyes, "to have worked and AT THE SHRINE AND HAUNTS OF THE POET GRAY II. The Poet Traveler Among the Familiar Scenes of the "Elegy" Stoke Manor, the Gray Monument and the Ancient Stoke Voget Church and Churchyard Win somely Pictured by a Loving and Poetlo Pen. Copyright, 1893, by Edgar L. Wakeman. Stoke Poges, England, Oct.

13. If the splendid scenic and historic environment of Stoke Poges, the old home and chief haunt of the poet Gray, is fine and stirring, the place itself is one likely to awaken the purest emotions of contemplation and de light. There are no more beautiful park and farm landscapes to be found in England than in Buckinghamshire, which in elude the velvety reaches and splendid park and primeval forests roundabout mdsor Castle. One may only fancy it, but it seems that even the carts upon the highways are more noiseless here. Cotter and plowboy, farmer or grimy potter from the near kilns, country wench or lassie with rosy cheeks, appear to move from house to house or field to field, as if in pleasant mood.

Kine in fields, dogs at doorways, sheep in meadows, all browse or nod as in sleepy solstice time, while the birds, though no less melodious here, tune their lays as if hesitant of breaking, even with joy, the sweet and tender spell. All this, too, is intensified by the peculiar retirement of the central scene of the "Elegy" the Stoke Poges Church and churchyard. Neither is at the wayside, as is usual with English country memorial churches. Unless first rightly directed you would pass them many times apon the old north and south highway from Slough. They lie to the west of the road, hidden by dense masses of trees.

Opposite are pleasant fields, with here and there willow bordered runlets of wimpling water or shadowy pools, where in summer are The kine, breast deep in the shallows at noon, When the flushed sun waits in sail rony skies, threadings of lanes and highways, with dainty vistas stretching to the horizon between, and, if the trees are wind whipped enough in autumn time, glimpses of the somber brown of Eton's embattled walls, with the great Round Tower of Windsor a gray silhouette beyond. Overarching trees and luxurious creepers shut out the StokePark road tochurch and manor house completely. Leaving this you enter a path leading over a little hillock through a tangled maze of coppice, and come at the end of perhaps a hundred yards to the huge monument erected to the memory of Gray, in 1799, by John Penn, grandson of William Penn, the theu lord of Stoke Manor. The design was by the noted James Wyatt. It consists of a sarcophagus of heroic size supported on a lofty square freestone pedestal the whole perhaps forty or fifty feet above the sward, which is beautifully interspersed with flowers and protected by a surrounding sunken fence.

It is really the only important monument to Gray in existence. A vast sum saved my whole life, with the surety of finding it so true to my heart picture of it all, would have indeed been a lifelong pleasure!" A wealthy ranchman from Wyoming who came a carriage, mind you, and "tipped" everything and everybody from Slough to Stoke, not forgetting myself in his kindly feeling, because I was able to point out a few trifling things he might have overlooked, voiced the same idea in a different way: "I used to 'parse' that stuff of Gray's when I was a boy down in our Mohawk valley village school till the infernal 'glimmering landscape' of every kind of grammar was eternally fading from my sight. But it worked up a regular longing to some time come and sort of stand around where Gray loafed. Now that I'm here the whole thing takes hold of me hard. My friend, that fellow Gray, 'rounded up' things here square!" And so he did.

Poetry is truly revela tion through melodious words, But it must be true, not false, revealment. You will saunter lovingly among the graves for a little, meantime getting acquainted with oldjoseph Lovell, for many, many years the sexton here, and his wife; both nearly seventy years of age, but chirpy as crickets aud brown and hard as nuts. They are making a bit of hay among the mounds, as is their right and their only fee, aside from that from burials, for which Joseph gets "four bob (shillings) fur th' big uns an two fur the little uns." The church itself is a little odd jumble of stone and wood, low and wide, with two low gables facing the east and gradually merging into one peak at the west end. It has one of the oddest south porches to be found in England. On the north side is a huge, low tower, nearly as large as the body of the church, from the top of whose crumbling Norman battlements rises a tall and very slender wooden spire.

The entire church to above the base of the spire is massed and matted with ivy, and is ail inspiring picture of mellow antiquity and hallowed repose. At the east end, just beneath the vestry window and but a few feet from the church wall, is the ancient low altar tomb of the Grays. On the slab is cut the famous in scription by Gray himself in memory of his aunt, Mary Antrobus, and his mother, Dorothy Gray, "the tender, careful mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." In this most humble tomb Gray lies. Again the friendly hand of a Penn is seen in the tablet opposite in the old church wall, re cording the fact of Gray's burial here. John Penn set this tablet here eighteen years after Gray's burial, and it was the first record ever made in stone that Thomas Gray had lived and sung in England.

The old south porch is one of a few remaining curious examples along with thnt at Grasmere Church, where Wordsworth is buried of the very ancient stone porches attached to country churches. In olden times they were the gathering places of villagers. With the room formerly over them called the Parvise the whole, with the stone side seats and Piscina, formed a tiny chapel, in which rustic marriages were solemnized. You will linger long with it, for it not only conjures olden wraiths of this ilk, but you are sitting in the very shade of that "yew tree" commemorated in the "Elegy." Its broad branches reach to the quaint gable above you and droop as if in benignant and loving protection upon the hallowed spot. For where you now sit once sat Thomas Gray, attuning his pensive lyre 1 deathless song.

The interior of this ancient church is very quaint and simple. Three strange five angled arches divide the narrow side aisles from the nave, the timbered vault of which is partly supported by four huge crossbeams of oak, The pews are as straight and narrow and as grotesquely carved as any I have elsewhere found in England. An ancient stone font, lined with lead and undoubtedly 500 years old, stands in the center of the nave and above the family vault of the Penns. The basement of the tower is wholly occupied by the manor pew. Its high paneling and narrow lattice work are very quaint and odd.

It is provided with settles, ottomans and a fireplace of ancientdesign. Curtains screen the occupants from the gaze of other worshipers. It is lighted by a tiny splayed window cut in the tower's east wall, and In the United States we have a system of protection with a continuous agitation for free trade. In England the estab lished system is as nearly as possible free trade with a constant agitation for pro tecthm. A discussion of the subject by Englishmen, therefore, throws an Im portaut light upon our own controversy lu the Forum for November will be found two articles by the most prominent Eng lish witters upon this subject: Sir Thomas H.

Farrar, for many years Sec retary of the English Bonrd of Trade who explains the several English views of the McKinley tariff and Its effect upon British expoits; and Lord Masham President of the Fair Trade Club and the largest textile manufacturer in Great Britain, gives the reasons why the pres ent policy of England should be changed to a protective policy, arguing thatEng land has not profited by free trade, A unique contribution to the political campaign Is a group of eight short papers entitled "For Whom I Shall Vote and Why," by eight prominent men who are not actively identified with politics. Of a semi-political nature also is a group of two papers on "Our Failure in Municipal Government" one by Mr. Joseph Cham berlain, the English political leader, and the other by Mr. Charles Francis Adams Other articles are "A New Impulse to an Old Gospel," "What We Really Know About Mars, "by Prof. Edward S.

Holden, "The Library of the United States," and "The Matter With the Small Farmer." The Forum Publishing Company, New York. To Open the JSew Opera itensr. It was announced from the stage at the Opera House last night that Anderson's famouB "Two Old Cronies" would epen the new Opera House, in the Masonic Temple on next Monday evening, Contractor Cox having promised to have the building in shape for it at that time. Death ol a Young Lady. We announce with regret the death of Miss Caroline Marsh, the beloved daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Levi Marsh, which occurred at their residence in Washington yesterday. She was a very bright, charming young girl, with a large circle of friends, who with her parents will deeply deplore her sad and uutimely death. She was a native of Franklin county, and about nineteen years of age. Our sympathies are extended to her bereaved parents.

Ino Deaths AbroHd. The New Orleans papers of Sunday print the following death notices with a request for the Natchez papers to copy: 'On Saturday morning, Oct. 29, 1802, at 11 o'clock, Marion Davis, youngest son of Gayden Davis and Olivia Payne, aged one month and two days, a native of New Orleans. 'At her residence, No. 112 Constanti nople stieet, on Tuesday morning, Oct.

18, 1892, at nine o'clock, Kate H. Ahem, wife of Andrew J. Stewart, of Waco, Texas. Interment at Natchez." Both the decedents have relatives and the latter many friends in Natchez, who will hearwith deep regret of their demise. Mrs.

Stewart was a native of this city, and for a number of years prior to her marriage resided here. Cotton Kxchiiuge Matters. At a meeting of the Cotton Exchange held last evening, Mr. Henry Frank tendered his resignation as a member thereof, which was accepted, as Mr. Frank was also a director, his withdrawal left a vacancy in the directory, which was tilled by the election of that sterling and energetic young merchant, Mr, James S.

Fleming. To Get Their Friend Out of 'Trouble." We noticed a hand bill on the streets yesterday beaded "Here We Are Again to the Front," and announcing a grand masquerade entertainment to be "for the benefit of our friend, James gan, who is in trouble; the proceeds thus raised to be used in securing a law-yerto defend him at the trial. We Invite all his friends to give a helping band by purchasing a ticket and atteuding the entertainment." The trouble "that our triend James Logan" is in is pretty serious. He is in jail awaiting a hearing before the grand jury on a charge of attempting to burglarize the residence of Mrs. Louis Davis, on Arlington Heights.

His colored friends have adopted rather an unique method, of raising funds to get him ous of "trouble," and we suppose there will be a liberal response to the appeal to purchase tickets to the grand masquerade entertainment. PEADACJIE A VI) DYSPEPSIA. Wm. E. tlockwell, No.

512 West 67th street New York, says: have been a myyter to bilious headache and dyspepsia. Any indiscretion in diet.overfatiKue or colds, brings on a fit of indigestion, followed by a headache lasting two or three davs at a time. I think I must Jhavo tried over twenty different remdeics, which were re-comended as ceitain cures by loving friends was no use. At last 1 thought would take a simple course of purgntkm.I took Brandketh's Fills. For the first week I took two pills every night, then one pill for thirty nights; in that time I gained three pounds in weight, and never haAe had an ache or pain since." (Disease one part of the body will eventually All the whole body with disease.

Every year or two some part of the system grows weak and begins to decay. Such part should be removed at once, and new matter be allowed to take its place. There's is no need of cutting it out with a surgeon's scapel. Purge away the old, diseased and worn out parts with Bkandhkth'S Pii.lh. novl tues-thurs-sat-wkly It was in the school of design.

Professor: What you have just drawn there looks more like a cow than a horse, Pupil It is a cow, sir. Boston Courier. OUT HIS New Orleans, Oct. 31 Cotton easy; sales spot 1250; to arrive 200. Ordinary good ordinary 611-16; low middling 7 3-16; middling 711-16; good middling 7 15-16; middling fair 8 7-18; lair 9.

Receipts net 34,591 gross 34,953. Ex ports: Great Britain France 3449; Continent 7487; Coastwise Stock 187,581. Futures steady; sales 86,000. November 7.60 7 61 7.60 7.61 January 7.70 7.71 February 7.80 7.S1 7.80$ 7.91 April 7.9'j 8.00 May 8 09 8 10 June 819 8.20 July 8.29 8.30 New York, Oct. 31 Closing Cotton down 1-10; sales Ordinary 5 3-16; good ordinary 7 1- 16; strict good ordinary low mid dling middling 8 3-16; gulf 8.

Futures steady; sales 18,250. November 7.81 7.83 December 7.94(a) 7.95 January 8.08$ 8 09 Febiuary 8.20 8 21 March 8 31 8.33 April 8.41(0) 8.42 May 8.51 8.52 June 8.60 8.62 July 8.68 8.70 August 8.76,3 8.78 Poreun. Liverpool, Oct. 31 Noon Cotton usiness moderate at easier prices. American 4 sales spec ulation and exports American 20,100.

4 p. m. Sales American Fu tures easy. Nov aud Dec f4 19-64 a Dec and Jan 4 20-64 a 4 21 64 Jan and Feb 4 23-64 a Feb and March t-t 25-64 a March and April 4 27-64 a 4 28-64 April and May 30-64 a May and June 4 32-61 a 4 33-64 Sellers tBuvers Value Nw York, Oct. 31 Money on call easier at 4 to 5 per cent; last loan 5, closed offered at 5.

Prime mercantile paper 56. Sterling exchange quiet at $4.83 for 60 day bills and 84.82 and Ql.gG or demand. New Orleans, Oct. 31 Rice steady; ordinary to good 34. Coffee firm Rio ordinary to fair 16) Surgar open kettle steady, fjir for fair 2 11-162.

Centrifugal opened firm, easier. Plantation granulated 4. Offdo4 5-l9. Choice yellow clarified 4 3-16, Off white5 3 15-164. Giay white 33 13-16.

Prime yellow clarified 3 5-163 7-18. Off do 3 1-163. Seconds 2(g3. Molasses steady; epen kettle: Fancy 42. Good prime 3233.

Fair to prime 28C3. Centrifugal Prime 2023. Fair to good fa'r 1113. Cood common to common 10 (all. Common 78.

Chicago, Oct. 13 The leading fu tures ranged as follows. Corn: October 41- 41, December 41J4-41, May 45-46. Oats: November 29 29 Decem ber 30-30, May 34 34. Mess pork: November 11.8C-11.- 50, January 13.50-13 85.

Lard, per 100 lbs; November 7.80 75, Januaiy 7.45-7.30. Short ribs, per 100: October 12.00 12.00, January 6.70-6.60. Cash quotations were as follows: No. 2 corn 41. No.

2 oats No. 2 white oats 34). No. 3 white oats 31-32)6 Mess pork per bbl. 11.5012.62)6.

Lard per 100 lbs. 8.358.40. Short ribs sides (loose) 18.00. Dry salted shoulders (boxed) 7.457.- 50. Short clear sides (boxed) 8.108.15.

WlilHky distillers finished goods per gallon 1.15. ST. LOUls. uct. au tour umnaneeu.

Corn advanced above yesterday: cnli 35s Oi's closed higher; cash 29; May Coniiiieal active, Pork (jobbing) Lard 75. Whisky quiet, 1.10. Dry salt meats loose lots shoulders 6.85 longs aud ribs 7.80 shorts 8.00 Boxed lots 115c more. Bacon shoulders 7.25 longs 8 627G1)6 ribs 8.75; Rhorts 7.75, Sugar cured hams 11.5012.50. Little boy Teacher said the Emperor of China has icd men to carry his umbrella.

Wot's that for? Papa (thoughtfully) I suppose It takes that many to remember to bring it along. Good News. The man who said "We see as through a glass darkly" may have been drinking porter Picayune. To turn your back on a friend is not "doing him a good turn." Boston Courier. Robbins (near-sighted): Hello, Jones? You look like another man, Stranger: I am.

This isn't Jones. twenty or more streams were poured into it from all sides. It is now be lie ved that the flames will be confined to the Opera House proper. The loss will not fall short of 375,000. Hanlon'i "Superba" was the play this week, and it Is not known whether the company saved their baggage or not.

In less than thirty minutes after the fire had started the structure was completely cleaned out, and the roof bad fallen In, but the flames were confined within the four walls. There was a fu rious gale blowing and danger that the fire would spread to the adjoining buildings along Sheriff street, but the depart ment put forth every effurt to prevent its spreading. Adjoining stores along Euclid avenue were tilled with suffocating smoke, aud their contents badly damag ed. Three explosions occurred during the progress of the Are, but from what cause is not known. The Hanlon which was on the boards for the week, lost all their scenery and appurtenances, besides their costumes, which they valued at 825,000.

Their plans for the season are seriously deranged. It is supposed the Are was started from a cross of electric wires In the cupola over the Sheriff street en trance. Its spread was rapid and within five minutes the entire interior was a mass of flames. Heard b'ock, through which entrance was had from Euclid avenue, suffered but slightly. Fire broke out in the upper story rear of the Severance block at 12:15 p.

The building was occupied by Mount of the Northern Ohio Nickle Works, and located on the Southwestern corner of Seneca and Long streets. It is still raging, and will leave only the shell of the upper story of the building. During the work of rescuing the girls from the building a ladder broke and a gill got her foot caught in the joints of the lad der and she was badly Injured. The loss will be about 16000. 9 You cannot expect a man to keep nn unmoved face when he lets his counte nance fall.

Justifiable larceny stealing a while away from business. Indianapolis Jour nal. "Know thyself" is good advice, but know abeut your neighbors is the general practice. Persons who pay cash for everything are never of much account. Philadelphia Record.

Coasting is very exciting sport, but, like some other amusements, it has its drawbacks. As it is an actor's business to hold the mirror up to nature, be must expect all sorts of When the small boy starts early for the pantry isn't to avoid the jam. Inter Ocean. It doesn't require any great optical skill to give site to a blind asylum. Binghampton Leader.

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SMALL PILL. SMALI DOSE. SHALL PRICE HIVER HEAD) ACHE cc 29-29 A man who buys coal these davs has-great asplrstiona. The dog who chases his tail Is lik many debaters he never reaches his. conclusion Elmira Gazette.

"1 fried a bottle of Salvation Oil fim a wound and was cured within several days. I never had such a good remedy" as Salvation Oil in my hand." Mrs. o. Duncan, Lexington, Mo. HOTICE To Managers and Peace Officers Office Commissioners of Election, i Oct 2B, 18U2.

1 The undersigned Commissioners of Election in and for the county of Adarrs, State of Mississippi, oo hereby appoint the following Managers and Peace Officers for the several precincts of said couuty, by the pow invested in--eaid Election Commissioners by the State Constitution, to conduct the election to be Tuesday, Nov. 8th, 1892: i COURT HOUSE. Manas-ers-A. H. Peale, John Rusielt-Pat Folc.

Peace Officer O. J. Montgomery. JEFFEBSON Managers F. M.

Swan, John A. Davis, Yftn, Davis. Peace Officer W. J. Bay.

PjtfE RIDGE. Managers Bisland McCaleb, E. B. Foster, W. Hence.

Peace Officer Jacob Thornburg, PALESTINE. Manacere E. B. Baker. Holidav Flemimr.

Archey Williams. peace omcer w. B. Mulims. BEVERLY.

Managers Austin W. Smith. T. S. Robbinion- Alex Mazycquo.

reace oiucer n. ii. weicn. DEAD MAN'S BEND. Managers Jos.

Rotchchild W. D. W. Johnson. Peace Officer Matt Miller.

WASHINGTON. Managers L. F. Veltup, W. H.

Ratciitfe. Sum Andrews, I'eace Omcer Johnatliau McCaleb. KINGSTON. Managers C. D.

Foules, W. H. Swavze. C. Turley.

i'eace uuicer-uosny swayze. Polls will be open from 9 a in. to 6 p. m. JAMES PIPES.

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TIF-KBsi HE POINT PLEASANT PLANTATION, Iff Ooncordia Parish, 25 miles below Natchez, on. the Mississippi River. 600 acres of rich open lands, with fine brick residence, 30 cabins, stables and other buildings. For terms and conditions spply to CITIZENS' BANK OF LOUISIANA, ocU-lmo New Orleans. S7b M5 M.1 fll I NI I UK II was once collected under pretense of a building fund in memory of Gray, at Pembroke Hall at Cambridge, where he was for years one of the most illustrious ornaments of the classic town.

"Indeed," says so excellent an authority as Gosse, "if strangers did not periodically inquire (at Cambridge) for his room, it is probable that the name of Gray would be as completely forgotten at Pembroke as at Peter-house (from which his cold bath at the hands of roistering fellow commoners one January night in 1756 had driven him), where also no monument of any kind preserves the record of his presence." The inscriptions on the four sides are in keeping with the spirit of the spot and at once emphasize in the visitor's mind the close and loving association of poet, poetry and place. On the side facing the south approach is the following: This Monument, in honor of THOMAS GRAY, Was Erected A. D. 1799 Among the scenery by that Brent Lyric and Elegiac: Poet. He died in 1771, And lies unnoted in the adjoining Churchyard, i the Tombstone on which he piously: And pathetically recorded the interment Of his Aunt and lamented Mother.

The other three inscriptions are from the "Ode to Eton College" and the "Elegy." From your present station at the monument you have only to turn and face the west for as sweet a prospect one altogether hidden as you entered the lodge gate as ever human eyes beheld. Across a lawnlike open field of clover almost musical from the hum of murmuring bees is seen, to the right, the remaining huge gables and chimneys, almost completely covered with ivy, of old Stoke Hall, the ancient manor house. Here once lived the noble families of the Huntingdons, the Cokes and the Cobhams. Daws chatter about the old chimneys and gossip in the branches of the lofty trees. Ancient greatness and stateliness, with picturesque and even winsome decay, charm the onlooker in every view of old Stoke Hall.

To the left, and somewhat farther away, across gently rolling and velvety lawns, the beautiful vista being bounded on either side by some of the richest park forestry in England, is Heen the dazzlingly white outlines of the splendid Stoke Hall of today. Before it, and still to the south, a gleam of shimmering blue hints of an extensive artificial sheet of water. Behind it, to the right, is a lofty pillar nearly 100 feet in height, surmounted by a heroic figure of Sir Edward Coke. Through marriage he was once lord of Stoke Manor. But the princely manor house which ends the vista, and whose white colonnades give the impression that lawn and forest enchant the eye to rest upon some far, fair palace built by fairy hands, was the work of the Penn family, principally of John Penn, the Founder's second son by his second wife.

An American's vivid fancy prompts a proprietary or iindred feeling here, and you are heartily glad you can find in England better memorial of this great family than the tablet of Admiral Penn in St. Mary Radcliffe Church, Bristol, or the grass choked grave of the grand old Quaker, William Penn, in lonely Jordan's Meeting House grave-garth. Squarely before you, to the west, not 500 yards away, an exquisite gem of scenic reality in the setting of this unequaled rural scene, stands old Stoke Poges Church, surrounded by its hallowed churchyard, fadeless in the memory and heart of man for just four lines of the ten-derest poetry ever peuned: Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade. Where heaves the turf in many a mould'rirjg heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. Children Cry for the lord of the manor and his family are admitted through a prisonlike door beneath outer crumbling steps, up which the change ringers, led by old Joseph Lovell, the sexton, ascend, when they doff their coats for the merry work in the 100 changes upon the chime of six sweetly musical bells.

Aside from the manorial pew the only spacious pew in Stoke Poges Church is the Gray family pew, now occupied by the All-husen heirs, who are also owners of the now handsome West PM Cottage, a mile north of the church, which was Gray's home during his residence at Stoke Poges. It is the sunniest, coziest place in the little church and stands in the west end of the south aisle. Above it oa the one side is a double lancet stained glass window with a representation of Christ blessing little children, and on the other, along the south wall, is a huge Penn tablet, commemorating the burial within this church of Thomas Penn, son of William Penn, of his (Thomas') wife, the Right Hon. Lady Juliana Penn, third daughter of Thomas, first Earl of Pomfret, of their sons, John and Granville Penn, of the wife of the latter and of their three sons and four daughters. Somehow there is here and all about Stoke Poges an indissoluble linking of the memory of the pensive poet and the kindred of the grand old Quaker chieftain.

Perhaps to you and I as Americans it draws more close the kindly spell which broods upon the church, churchyard and silent, sylvan scene of the "Elegy." But you can hardly leave the sweet old spot until the shadows have fallen, and, your whole being filled with the tender spirit of the place, your heart rather than your inarticulate lips litter those lines of graven soul in liquid song: Now fades the glimmering landscape on the Kiht, And all the nir a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight And drowsy Unklines lull the distant folds. Edgak L. Wakeman. Pitcher's Castoria..