Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1917 — MAKES OUTDOOR TEMPLE [ARTICLE]

MAKES OUTDOOR TEMPLE

Stonehenge In England Is Quaint Old Place of Worship. Stonehenge is a prehistoric outdoor temple on Salisbury plain, the pride of England, and formerly a periodic source of national panic as reports got abroad that it was about to be bought by a rich American and freighted bodily across the Atlantic. It is one thing that every tourist is sure to visit, and from mid-morning to mid-afternoon it is likely to be surrounded by crowds of vehicles of all sorts and conditions, full of picnic parties and curious aliens and antiquarians. Hence the best time to visit Stonehenge is very early In the morning or on a moonlight night. Visiting Stonehenge is a spiritual most uncanny in the powerful effect that these great drunken - leaning rocks have on the imagination. The atmosphere of Salisbury plain has more than a little to do with this. Its rough grassy open swept by a keen seawind has a loneliness, a rude and primitive quality that is out of place in little, thickly-settled England. The shallow tinkle of sheep bells only seems to hark back to the days of those other little people who tended their sheep on the plain and worshiped in the monstrous temple that looms huge in “the morning light. tl , j ... '