The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-24
SCENES FROM EUROPEAN TRAVEL.
DR.. CAROLS Eloquent Lecture from the
Blarney Stone to VeSuvius.

An audience of considerable size was at Rob-
erts Park Church last night to listen to the in
teresting and eloquent lecture of the Rev. Dr.
j. Fl. Carroll, directly from Saltwater, Mich.
but whose homo is in Brooklyn, N. Y. The
Hon. Stanton j. Peelle introduced tho lecturer
as a descendant of Charles Carroll of Carroll
ton, one of the sgners of the Declaration of In
dependence In the subject From the Blarney
Stone to Vesuvius' DR.. Carroll found wide
field for his fine descriptive power. Possessing
dramatic force and prolific resources of poetic
thought. the tour was made so interesting that
one hardly noted the hour and halfs time
which went by with rapidly passing pict
ures of notable scenes incidents
and personages of European localities
and history. DR.. Carroll presented familiar
things with such charming phraseology that each
partook Of the freshness of new Journey
Out from New York the sea voyage is de-
scrlbed with fullness of grandeur and spice of
humor until the good ship brings him into Cork
harbor and up to the mouth of the river Lee.
The first object that greets the eye is the monu-
ment to Ireland's great philanthropist and priest
the good Father Mathew and the first sound
His first Sunday was spent in the old
cathedral of Cork, where the pews are
so high that bellies and beaux cannot
telephone to each other. Next morning six
mile ride In Jaunting car is taken 1t is a two
wheeled concern. like an upifted butchers cart,
with the steps this way, the seats that way the
horse another way 1t is the only place where
man cannot get his back UP. This ride is to
Don Castle, which the lecturer wildly described,
picturing its hoary age, crumb bling and ivy grown
ind hnn 0yod fhn k.nx,
that emauate from it, The blarney-stone is
found kissed smooth by thousands of reverent
lips. Said the guide to him: Master, won't
you kiss it!
"Never forgit that he who kisses never misses
to grow ilouunt."
He kissed it, but since then the position of
Presbyterian D. D., making wheel-b barrow of
himself in touching the stone with his lips mas
led him to think that attitude is everything
But on to Killarney, the Vale of Avoca and other
scenes of south Ireland which have enraptured
tourists the lecturer passed. giving each poet
icai compliment. Thence to Dublin, where he
stopped long enough to pay eloquent
tribute to the Protestant Emmett and
pronounce rhapsody on Daniel O'Con-
nell, suggested by the colossal monument to
his memory, topped by a colossal statue;
to Belfast then, where he found religious meet
ing of 81 900 people in the Botanical Gardens,
and which he depicted in eloquent measure.
Across the sea and northern Britain and into Scot
land he carried his'auditors, to the dual city of
Edinburg Touching briefly upon its charac-
teristlcally tall houses, he passed to Hollywood
Castle, and swiftly drew pictures of the life
Mary Queen of Scots led there. Hero was sug-
gested to him the great divnes and thinkers of
Scottish history. John Knox arose before him;
Knox, of whom Mary said II dread that mans
prayers more than a regiment of Dragons"
Knox, at whose grave the English lord ex-
claimed, 'There lies who never feared the
face of man." The brilliant literary lights of
hJc Ifxya f oh l.
score of names, among which were those of
Christopher North Sir Walter Scott and Robert
Burns, the Shakespeare of Scotia. The lecturer
gave, with remarkably fine reading, the we'll
known poem. "a mans man for a. that and a
that"
In London the usual sights of the city were
merely mentioned; the interest gathered around
the church where Rowland Hill preached.
Among his congregation were some very pious
people, so pious that they were no more than
canting hypocrites. One of these sent up an
anonymous note to the preacher, reading: Dear
Pastor, | am sorely grieved to see you desecrate
the Sabbath by driving to your church. Initiate
the example of your Lord and Master" Hill
read the note put it down, and with those gray
eyes OF his, of which biographer wrote: "Woe
betlde the man upon whom they were fixed"
singled out person of the congregation, de-
liberately said: IF the ass who wrote that note
will stop after service and saddle himself
l Will ride him home" From Lon
don through France, with it's many
familiar scenes and personages, dressed in the
choicest words, and passing from humor to
pathos, the lecturer went into Germany where
the famous Heidelberg wine cellar and the his
torical Sans Souci mill were described. 'Ten
my lord and king" said the old miller eff he
touches one tile of the mill, will show him that
there is law in Prussia" He did, and the King
lost ut is possible" the lecturer remarked,
that some of you wish there were such mills
in Indiana The gambling houses of Hamburg
were pictured impressivey, with their varied
illustrations of the greed for gold, closing with
an affecting description of Russian mobiles
suicide at the table, when his all had been swept
away on the turn of card.
In st. Petersburg, an imperial wedding
claimed one of the finest passages in the lecture
After touching briefly upon other wonders of the
Russian capital, he rapidly travelled into Italy
stopping at Florence barely to note Elizabeth
Barrett BrowDings home, the name upon the
door-plate of which is the nuptial sign of
English and Italian literature, and to describe
scene of Florentine pauperism. At Rome the
catacomos and ST. Peters, in the latter a church
procession of Pope, cardinals, Swiss guards
dlgnltaries of church and state, OF Christmas
morning, furnishing the features of descrip-
ton. Then TO Naples where the destruction of
Pompeii and the wonders of its excavations, the
dreadful grandeur of Vesuvius and the beauties
OF the bay came in for graphic wording. Thus
the lecture closed.
SineularIy Served.