Show WORD ABROAD john bench writes of ilis his work in england COLESHILL ENGLAND EDITOR JOURNAL As we have started out on another year since I 1 wrote to your valuable paper wid ald as aa many vent ful things lias has taken place since that time I 1 again take plea pleasure eure in send ang riga a little news from this side of 0 the alie globe As it appears ton toll Leg anite after liin years I 1 la tile llie beautiful milley of cache 1 and ag 1 tile ali have lust just and the festivities of the season are albosta a triine of the past and the poor in the land are beginning to feel the effects as many have not been able to do any work aj ad many of the manu fac cloea their premises from one to three weeks and VO as a matter of course lit ill this thi season of the your year it adds thousands more to the already unemployed M oyed and they are in a vey indeed as aa thousands lic from froin hand to mouth tit and no sooner are arc they out of work than hat they ate aie out of tile the necessaries of life and as you alk along the towns and villages you can call see tile the people cad in winter just ai a s i 3 they are in the summer time lime not a bit of lif dif ference they have hare not that which is required ir e d to make them warm and com for fori forcible ible b I 1 e at this seavon season of the lie year many of them not half fed nor halt half clad and ana many no doubt bring these things upon themselves by being improvident while at the tune time the nork houses are full and according acco iding to lo statistics there are many more in their prisons than at any other time and a great many many i auh uli into the army so 80 as ad to get food a nd vlot hinz when ne fie contrast the difference arence with tile the people oi of cache valley it causes one to lift up his voice it in praise that his lot is caba in pleasant places and that he lives liva in a place when thore there is peace bace and plenty and that the people ado do not 0 t have to wander aboa about hungry an and d cold oi d tint hut as a general cener il thing 1 they have their 0 own 7 n homes awl and if there ire are an any that are not able abe to sustain themselves they ate aie veil i ell looked after and they do not have are to wander about from door tedoor to door and I 1 irve often thought to myself while traveling in these lindia that could our people see tin the poverty and misery that exists in these thee thickly populated places chev would thank t the ile lord jord that ill they 1 iverean were in a place such much bantan I misery are unknown we have winter out here at least and for the two last weeks N se we have been getting it in good shape in fact it is the longest spell of one kind of weather that we have bave nad had for a long time awl and the way vay it lias fiat set in it looks very much a as s stay star and as it s tile tho R appearance pe arance of what is termed an 0 old d fashioned winter and if it should keep on much longer no one can tell what hat the sufferings of the will be for all outside labor is stopped by it and people generally have little conception what that means the whole building trade onest the industries in the c country is turned idle gardeners day laborers 8 of all sorts and everybody that arks in tile ho open air nir is frozen out it is not only in this count county hat but is all 0 er the country alike before clodin closing this there is ia on one ile f place lace in ill this county tint I 1 N w ill saya say a few fell words about as aa there are a great tit many any ameri ains interested in it and that is ia stratford on avon the birthplace of shakespeare most of the americans call at this place to ree pee the birthplace and the grave of the vot vo t on our way vay to tile the birthplace lies to tho the left along windsor street is the fountain and clock toner presented to the town by the chills childs of philadelphia and it is a nie gift and itis it is a credit to alie town about five fire minutes walk from this place is ia street and on 01 the loft felt stands Shake hoube it is little more thin than a cottone cot toge built in the alie old war shiro style showing its black wooden b baams bams and preserved as nearly as possible as it must harp havia been con lit in th tho roots time but il iii 1817 1847 it was purchased for fifteen thousand dollars aud and you are admitted for the llie suni BUM of 12 acts ts to see tile in terric or and there is a book bonk kept especially ally for americans to register in at the further benl enl en 1 of chapel street on the left stood new deiv place in which ended his lave days but the house has been pulled doin therease The there reate are the remains of a bay window in tile hie back grou arouni nf wl where here lie he tit sat whon when wai waiting ting the tempest the atte e is a redbrick fredbrick red brick structure e bec ted after the tercentenary of shakes peares birth etwas it was built by b public subscription ata at a cost of one fine hundred and twenty thousand dollars As N we c RO go alonz along waterside arid and come out from southern lano lane we pies the where oliver benile 1 l holmes spent a week of his hundred days in fit europeans europe and a little further on is th the e church where tile the poet is ia buried there are arc thousands of ex go to visit tins this place anil and before you enter cuter tile church there is 12 acts ta pay there is a stained detained ulass w andow in this church which has been erected by the offerings of american visitors to the church it represent the lie seven ilges ages of man the cost of the building is is one thousand two hundred d and fifty dollars there are many other 1 places h e 8 of interest t to 0 entertain visitors in i t this h place but I 1 have not time to mention as I 1 have lave already made this a little lengthy io the tha yours respectfully JOTIN bencic |