The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-11
PICTURES OF STRANGE LANDS.
Views of Foreign Countries as Seen by Our
Correspondents.


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| ireland, Scotland, England then Belgium
Germany, Frauce and Switzerland Ireland
it made me feel sad. 1t is a dead country, and
Dublin is dead capital. What country that
| is too and what it might do under ether cir
| cuustances. No improvement no energy. nc
| advanoe-the industries hampered everywhere
| by unjust and discriminating legislation
| Farming is necessarily the occupation of the
| masses, and the system is fearful. 1t wouldn't
| be so bad il the landlords, to whom this money
| goes, would only spend it in Ireland, but nine
| tenths Of them are absentees, or people that
live in England, SO that the rent roll represents
an enormous and never-ceasing drain upon the
country-so much money cast into the sea"
1.-THE greatest people in London are Glad
stone and Spurgeon. Sturgeon has a magnifi-
cent residence about eight miles out-one Of
the prettiest in England.
"The wonder Of London is London itself
Gust think Of 100000 people in one ethyl
don think there will ever be another city
like London.
"Then we saw the towor-the Bloody
Tower as they have called it for hundreds of
years. We saw the block with the cavities for
the shoulders and head, and the great dents
in the wood where the ak had recorded
tho story Of the execution. Then the ak it.
self-a great, broad, heavy, murderous thing.
linen IN the tower YafQ Were the graves OF the
victims. Among them, side by side, were the
graves Of two of the wives of Henry VIII.
FLOWER OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION.
1t has been modelled and remodeled, and
modelled again, and today it is the prettest
city in the world. 1t is wonderful. Every
where is the handiwork of the Napoloons.
First in the hearts OF the people today is the
great Napoleon-'the little corporal The
personality of the Napoleons is impressed upon
the character of those mercurial, restless peo-
pie, and that spirit is the soul of Paris In
one place, grouped around center, are statues
representing the provinces of France. 1t was
before Alsaee and Lorraine were lost, and
Strasburg is represented clothed in mourning
now.
'They will fight at the opportunity for Alsace
and Lorraine. On the other hand, Germany
seems quite as determined to hold them and
the emperor OF Germany is even now building
O grand palace there.
''The first thing you will notice in going
through the country is the large number OF
women performing the work of farm iaborers
i'll the field. There are actually more female
farm laborers than there are male. 1t is so
all over Germany and Belgium particularly
The Germans impress one as a solid, prosper
Gus, strong people. The prettest thing
in Germany except, possibly, some
portions of the Rhine, is the
cathedral at Cologne. 1t is the
HIGHEST building IN EUROPE,
being over 500 feet high. We saw the spire
twenty-six miles away, and somehow You can
appreciate its vast proportions better away off
that way than when you are right at it. 1t is
not well located, and small, unpretentious
houses arc all around it, and there is no square
nor even broad street. In Paris it would
have been different altogether But it is the
prettiest building we saw in Europe
"And Switzerland"
"It is Switzerland-erand beyond all ex-
preston The lakes and the mountains. They
must be seen to be understood. In point
of natural grandeur and beauty Switzer-
land is beyond comparison. Away up on the
sloping mountainsides those people have
climbed, where it would seem that no crow
could fly They have built hut, Theoretically
made soil enough for garden, enclosing it in
stone walls, and If noed he laying it ON stone
foundations to keep it from washing away.
1t is o mere flower garden of farm. The
most enterprising yankee would fold his
hands in passive despair at the prospect of
depending upon farm like that Around him
the mountains, perpetually snow-capped,
maryelOusly beautiful. Below the valleys and
tho Villages, and the mountain streamlet on its
way to the Rhine or The Danube. And the
SOLDIERS ARE EVERYWHERE.
"In London, Berlin, Belgium, Edinburgh,
Dublin, everywhere, on every street corner, q
uniformed soldier or squad Of them. Those
are governments of force, and there is no lib
erty.
Coming home from New York did notsee
a single soldier through the public buildings
in dozen of our great cities and not sentry.
Why guard everything from the people when
everything belongs to the people? There is
no country like America There is absence of
CASTE and in its place are possibilities open to
ALL We have no Switzerland, nor London
nor Paris, but America is best of all There is
no place like home"