Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1889-10-04

In our last we were far down
among the torrid scenes of Cen
tral America, from which place
we travelled more than twelve
hundred miles on horseback, dur
ing which time the saddle was
our home in the day time and our
pillow while we slept on the
at night. The jabber-
ing of parrots, the cry of monkeys
and the wild piercing howl of the
tiger at night, were some of the
sounds that broke the monotony
of the wild wood. But in time
these were exchanged for the low
of flocks and herds, and the
rumbling of trains on the plains
of Texas, Kansas and through the
fertile fields and pasture lands of
old Missouri.
These with the familiar sound
of our own language, and the
sight of familiar faces and friends
and kindred, all, made our return
a season of pleasure,
But TO the traveller by profess
sion, these are pleasures that
fate decides he must enjoy but
for limited time. AS stated to
youri readers we are again on
our way, and this time en- route
for the Old World. So the scenes
and sounds are changed again for
on the thirteenth OF Aug. we bid
goodby to friends and home and
set out for New York, where we
arrived on the twenty second,
having spent ten days among the
scenes along the way. The old
city of Wheeling with its great
glass works all run by natural
gas, and the extensive iron-works
Of Pittsburg, with its old black
house, the only relic left OF Fort
DuQuesne, and the beautiful
scenery of Harpers Ferry, with
is historic fields, where the blood
If the slain dyed the grass and
he ground red, these with a
Jew of the old arsenal of John
Brown and scenes along the
Potomac and the Shenandoah,
.laimed our attention and gave in
eturn much to please the eye,
gladden. the heart and improve
he mind. Next our national capi- |
al with its marble walks, green
md tlowery gardens, its grand
structures of stone, iron and glass, |
With a climb to the summit of the |
monument and visit to the
White House, called for three !
lays of our time. Next, we called g,
On number Of dear friends we
found in Virginia during the
early days of our travel in the
east, and, as in the past we were
entertained in that hospitabie way,
FOR which the Old Dominion peo-
pie are noted. Soon we departed
for Baltimore, thence to Philadel-
phia, where we tarried for time
and took q birds eye view OF the
city of Brotherly-love from the
tower Of its city hall. Thence, by
the midnight train, we hurried
along to New York City where
our steamer was ready to sail in
a few hours. thus, as so often in
the past, our nights and days were
all occupied, and just in time we
got aboard the Amsterdam of the
Royal Mail Steam ship line for
the Netherlands. Then after a
short time was allowed for all to
bid farewell to friends, we sailed
away, with a new realization of
what it means to say goodbye at
the seashore. Soon the friends on
the docks were lost to sight, then
the ships in the harbor, the tall
church spires of Brooklyn, and
last the light house on Sandy
Hook, all seemed to sink beneath
the waves. We have changed our
abode on land for:
"a home on the ocean wave,
Mid scenes OF life on the rolling deep
Where the waters ever rave
And the winds they never Sleep
We secured our tickets for
Pans by way of Northern Europe
that we might visit the scenes
along Lands End, England. The
English Channel, the Strait of
Dover and the North Sea and
through the great dykes of Hol-
land into the Netherlands. After
a most delightful voyage of four
teen days all this has been com
plete,, and we are now in the
capital city Of Holland, amid the
historic scenes where William
Prince of Orange made history
behind the dykes and below the |
level Of the sea; and where Rem
brandt, Hobbema and VanDvke |
made pictures. Just before writ
ng this we returned from the
own of Iaandam where Peter the
great learned to make ships. i
Thus, the out lines Of "Swinton's
which good old Prof.
Mason SO firmly impressed upon
our minds in No. 6 at the Normal,
ire all rising before us with SEEM
ng reality, which revives sweet
memories of the past and adds
much to the pleasures of the
present. We have been constant
y on the go for two weeks, and