| Show T Tomb of Virginias Founder Captain John Smiths Body Lies in Ancient St Soul of the Great Englishman Goe Marching On T lAB HAS taken loken 00 years ear tor tOl Capt John IT I Smith the tho real NIlI founder lounder ot of VIrginia to attain his hid proper place In history TM The Jamestown exposition II to he be hell hellon on the tho shorn of at in III will prove proc to be n 11 a I apotheosis ot 0 this great It Is moro more then than that by the Iho limo 1731 comes around the th people of the state or of Ir will memorialize iha three thre hundredth anniversary of lilt hl death Since 1 1651 1 his mortal remains r have re rc reposed po posed ld In quaint old St sepulchre In the Iho yer very heart o of It was an church when Ihen ho he was wall burled there dill dat dillIng datIng Ing buck as 08 tar far as rhe fhe Hon It It Wallon Moore I a distinguished mem member ber ot of the tho bar who hua hils n hIgh highly developed faculty for lor unearthing tore lore relating to hl his native state slate wIllie widle In recently endeavored to learn what nc facts he regard log the tho last years of the Ihl great gayer gover nor o of Virginia und and of oC Now W Wl l England J I believe t says SaH Me ra Moore the tho facts relating to ICI the last years of Capt are rather vaguely known knowlI and that there Is III no record of oC the 1110 of at his death It 11 Is beyond however that ho resided In Inthe the Iho parish ot of that church hurch and we see tray Inay suppose O that when he had become II a broken and lonely man lOon and was Vas op ap reaching th the end of lifes fitful fever he he found within its sacred precincts the peace for tor which hI he longed St L Sepulchre Is III pre ot of the oddest church edifices in London Il was Bret built In 1091 1070 and rebuilt In HlO 1110 The Tho woodwork woe wall destroyed bY the g great at lire fire ot of 1666 but the walla remained and the task ot of restoration was wall quicklY un undertaken and completed Its organ which l is Bald to bo be ono one ot of the finest In London dates back tp to 1670 The church has haa an interesting relation to tho ancient part or of London In which It itIs Is III located Near by was prison and It was a the Iho duty of the Iho bell bellman bellman man Of St Sepulchre to ring n a bell out outside side the tho c cell ot of anyone confined there to death at midnight on thA eve ee or of the execution and At the same lame limo recite the tho verses whose concluding lines linea are 10 And when St Bt Sepulchers bell In the tho morning tolls tolle The Tho Lord above have merc mercy on your souls Put Past 12 The bell itself which Is really a small metal anvil Is kept kelt In lie church al although though disused for many generations ons Jt It was wall also the Iho custom for tor the tho cart which carried the Iho condemned man front IranI N Newgate atc to 10 the place ot of execution to 10 stop at the tho church In order that ho he might there be presented with a flower which It was wall intended ho he should hould wear to Tyburn The last man who wore Ioro the tho thet St t sepulchre funeral flower was area Q a dla dis disciple ciple anel follower ot of the notorious Jon Wild As for the tho local setting or of orthe the church It mn may bo be mentioned that not tar far ort off 1 is St 81 cathedral that within yards Is the Old Dallo Bailey and that within sight lIght Is the o open n space where the martyrdom ot of so 80 many brave Immortalized One of the tho Smithfield victims was Roger Hoger the vicar of St Sepulchre to 10 whom by some Bome tine hall been In attributed the fleet COm romo translation of the tho Bible Into Eng II Fie Iff declined n Ii pardon offered upon condition that ho r recant ant saying That which I have hao preached will r I seal jeal with my blood and to quote the Iho m nn Passed Y k on not as to 10 his death but All as Ito to his hll wedding The roar of I Ithe the traffic ot of modern London reaches the Iho church from from the Iho I Strand from Street tram from Ludgate Ifill from noun the Market and I about It over the tho less known thorough thoroughfares fares tarell that hem It In ht wIth It its II school and yard Of lowers clamors the varied and Incessant activity of the I busy city 1 found lound continues Mr rr Moore the tho church closed but managed to arouse the Iho b beadle who Is the Iho most looking little old man attired In gold dress ot of hla that has IHu ever lived outside of at the tho books ot of fictIon lie Ill mumbling things I could not called the verger erger who admitted mo me and never Of leaving me a moment after atter learning that I was a Virginian and attracted to I NN f w J t r TO 10 BREAK SS TRUST Delegates representing 31 govern goern ments are now assembling In Berlin by Invitation of oC the German government govern government ment with tho Iho object of at reachIng n a common agreement for tor an exchange ot of between the users of at var various ar lOlls ious wireless telegraph systems and to define the tho basis on whIch private wIreless companies may with the tho consent of governments government One of the tho most Important matters to be settled by the tho conference will hinge on the Iho Marconi com pliny re to interchange with the Area Arco Gorman system Signor Marconi Mar Marconi coni himself Is attending Iho ho confer canter once nce ns as the delegate from Montenegro tho ho church by the n memory of oC Capt Smith The Tho body ot of the founder was IM undoubtedly borne borno into Ino the Iho church that day clay of his burial In June Junc 1631 after atter the weariness ut of mortality had fi finally I overtaken him through the tho same iron Iroll late which was opened I d me across the tho splendid t Pan tu t IntO the tho church church and Willi waa then laid way away under the tho chancel To mark the tho spot pot a gray graystone stone slab was H placed over It bearing heraldic devices and a rhyming trIbute tito to his exploits and virtues All that WItS was originally figured or written on the lite atone hu has been worn away except that the tho verger assured me when whon he hall had knelt and Un carefully brushed aI away the Iho duet that thai he could discern the Iho three Turks heads which we know were ero carved caned on the escutcheon The slab has hall been removed from II its first position to one of the tho aisles and andIn In the Iho wall opposite to It has been placed a brass braM tablet h In 1 n wooden triune which repeats the tho Inscription which the tho stone once bore ore be beginning To the memory of his hili deceased 1151 friend Captain John Jahn sometime Gov Governor or of and Ind Admiral ot of Now New England who departed this lire life the day lIay ot of Juno 1631 out est this are aro 26 If s ot of verse nil as follows nero Hero lies ono one conquered that hath conquered kings kIng largo large territorIes and done things Which to tho world impossible would seem But Dut that Iho ho truth Is held In ht more mora morar r esteem teem Shall I report lute his former service done clono Ut In honour ot of his God and ona Christen Christendom Christendom dom now how that ho did divide front from three Their heads and II lives veil types ol of his chivalry For which great Grent service la In that thAl cli climate mate mall done Bravo kIng of DId give ilvo hIm as u Q coat ot of arms to wear These conquered heads head got by his sword and spear Or 01 shall I 1 tell lell ot of hIs adventures since Done In Virginia that large vent how lIow that he kIngs unto huh hi hiyo yo yoke lIe And made those heathen tee lice liS as wind doth smoke And made their hand IlInd being or of so large II a station An habitation for tor our Christian nation Where God clod Is glorified their wants WhIch else for tor necessaries must have havo But Dut what avails his conquests now he byes Interred In earth II a prey to worms and 01 0 may his soul in sweet Boot Elysium sleep Until the Iho Keeper that nil all souls doth keep keup to Judgment and that after thence With angels Itt he hilt may have havo his hll pence b bin In conclusion Mr Moore says MYS Nearly opposite the tho stab on the tho theother other side or of tho lie aisle Is the tho pew paw oc cc occupied by the lord mayor ot of London when once a 0 year hu 10 goes Joes to St SI Sepulchre on Sunday Bunda riding In his state coach preceded by the tho city a I on onby horseback and attended b by sheriffs and aldermen They rhoy all wear theIr robes and In insignia signia of 01 oilier and an Iron sword rest Is III attached to the tho end or of the tho pow peW to 10 hold hait c the tho lord sword vord while he Is lit at warship The secretory ot of the Iho British museum and some omo ot of the subordinates are as I found well In informed formed touching the co colony 1011 of VIr gala and its 1111 founder a and lid can It he be believed that these the c London officials are 1110 so BO well Veil informed and that when tho they nako their annual to St Sepulchre they fall to recall some lome something thing of the shining services rendered b by Smith to the causo ot of human pros revs The Tho church records prior to 1662 been destroyed but bul I hind hd It from the verger that thai Investigation ot of such uch records all an exist show that since that time the tho church has furnished luM n a alast last reeling place for more than eighty thousand persons As annoy nil as tour four fourteen teen hundred and Of those thos who perished In the great plague were Vero burled there the tho numb number r one day dllY reaching tort forty In all of ef this silent company the name namo of ju just l ono one man stAnds out name Is isso so 80 constantly In the minds and on the lips ot of Virginians In this anniversary time I talked with tune tho verger yerger for tor toran foran an hour In the tha halt light and cool of the church the tho heavy Eng English lish walls dulling the sounds Hounds ot of tM the throbbing world outside and lien thon I wont went away awny realising that no other spot In London can ever have for or me the tho same interest as 1111 the burial piece or of the tho VirginIa soldier and states statesman man who has been sleeping there thero nearly three hundred ye years |
