The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-07-23
La Italy Seeing the Sights
of Which He Tells.
DIFFERENT RACES AND CUSTOMS,
Many Ideas we Get at Home Of Coun.
!. lries and People are Erroneous.
+ An Interesting Letter.
The following is an extract from a LETT
ter from R. E. Lawhorn, Jr, to his father
in this place: 81"
UNITED STATES SIR, MARBLEHEAD,

in this place: M@ @
UNITED STATES SHIP, MARBLEHEAD,
Eg VENICE, ITALY, June rs.
After Spending the greater part OF a
year continuously on tie. coast Of Asia
Minor. watching the slow motioned sleepy
Turks, we have moved north to the coast
OF Europe again and are now at the beau>
tiful city OF Venice. s8 A
II is really treat to get back among
people mere like ourselves than those
Asiatic, races, though there are some fine
people among them, but their manners
and customs are so different from ours
that one gets tired of being confined so
long on that coast Although these Ital.
ians and many other of the European
people, speak language of which we
know little or nothing they are in appear
ance, as we'll as manners and customs.
nearer approach to our own people than
any Of the. As;atic races, and make a
fellow feel like he is getting back into
some of the settlements little nearer
home.
! have been ashore good deal here
ana have taken in most OF the sights of
the city and have been kept in a continual
state o. amazement, especially BY the
wonderful display of works Of art. / shall
not attempt any description of them, for
that would bewilder even an artist, VINO is
accustomed to such displays, and Of course
it would simply paralyze me; but to give
you an idea Of the enormous scale on
which some Of these splendid pictures are
made, ! will mention one / saw, which
was ninety by thirty feet and contained
nine hundred figures. I saw some of the
pillars Of Solomon temple, taken during
the warsof the Crusad ers and brought here
from the Holy Land. I visited the ia,
nous Ducal palace, chamber of the coun.
Gil of ten, crossed the bridge of signs, en-
tered the dungeon under the palace in
which many noted prisoners were con-
fined and afterwards executed; visited st.
Marks Church in which St. Mark is burr
led, having been brought here from Alex>
andria, Egypt, where he suffered martyrs
dom. Portions Of many of these buildings
are about thousand years old and if thew
could only talk could tell vast deal of
the bloody history of the middle ages.
Many OF the armies OF the Crusaders em>
barked from here for the Holy Land, only
small fragment of them ever saw their
native land again. This was once the
gate through which all Europe communi.
Gated with India and China, but that was
before they found the way round Africa,
but even now this is great and impor-
tant city with its streets OF water navigated
only by boats and gondolas; / see women
making lace here worth SIS yard, and
are paid l2c day for it. We see many
pretty hard specimens of Italians at home.
but they are from the lowest class. The
middle and upper classes are splendid
people. Many of the ideas we get at horne
OF countries ard their people are errone.
GUS. Sometimes l find that we over ssti-
mate them, and in other cases far under
rate people or country. To properly es-
innate them one must see all classes in
their own land .. .....s s........,
One of our three ships will 90 home
soon to take the men whose time is out
but many moons will probably wane before
again see the shores of America.