Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-07-23
Ireland and Scotland.
DUMBABToN, SCOTLAND.
July Sth, 1896.

| JULY Sth, 1876.
Ed. CITIzEN:-P Perhaps you can find
| room for few lines lom the old world
which first touched a Londonderry, Ire
| land. a week ago; AID spent two dsI 5
there. and the greatest object of interest
| was the old walls built IL 1000 and still IN
| a very good state of preservation generally
The people from derry" to Belfast seem
all fine and healthy though OF short stat
| ure. and havn't seen sallow face IL Ire
| land in nv four days travel in that coun
| try. / attended q County Fair at Derry
| and saw specimens of Durham and Angn>
| (Scotland5 breeds of cattle, much large:
and finer than anything had ever seen a.
home. one COW that would give 20 quartz
at a milking, and sheep equally line ahc
some had wool as closely curled as any
Africans hair, and some said to shear IRON
| II to 10 pounds of wool.
The horses were not generally as groc
as I've seer at fairs at home, but horse
| jumping exhibition the same day "
some very beautiful animals that leapeo
| very gracefully over hedges and stone Walls
| from 81 to Al feet high, but the riders gen
| orally seemed very imperfect according TO
our standard. 1t took Buffalo Bill and his
cow bovs to show Europeans how to ride.
At the Bank Of Ireland in Deny they
willingly took some American gold at par
for their money. 1 visited the giants
canseway, 10 miles from Derry, and 1t Is
very great natural curiosity, and thence 10
Belfast So miles, passing through beauti-
| ful and fertile country all the way.
The crops were mainly oats, hay, pota-
| toes and turnips. l saw some scare crows
| in q potato field and learned that the lrlsh
crows actually scratch out and eat pota-
toes. In framed bill of fare at ID. station
N ipHa of drinks for
sale including cyder, and different KINDS
of tobacco and kinds of food.
| The lack OF closet conveniences in the
cars in this country is simply barbarous
| and brutal, but the street cars are great
| Improvement on ours, having seats on the
| ton and a neat little stairs at each END SO
one can take deck or cabin passage at
will at the same price and can ride long
way for a penny. l spent day at Belfast
of 300. 600 population, and very hne Dusl-
ness city where I'm told no one needs
want for employment The shops OF the
White Star line are built there. l 1ounG
Robinson's Temperance Hotel on Donegai
| St, a very pleasant place to stop. Leaving
| there at p. m. by steamer, reacheu
Glasgow, Scotland, of 700,0 900 populatloni
at next morning, and proceeded to visit
McAlpine ST., of that city, which however
| is OF a very beautiful or pleasant avenue.
The Clyde with its immense ship yards
and numerous great iron and steel foun-
dries in process OF construction is very
| interesting scene.
Dumbarton, the home of my grand faith
er. who left here before the Revolutionary
| war, is a sunny Scotch city OF lI,0o0 and
| famous for its rock :, 400 feet high with It's
| old castle on the top where the sword OF
Wallace has always been kept till years
ago it was removed to his monument at
| Sterling 80 miles from here
Monday / visited the city OF Ayr, ana
| the cottage where Burns was eorn ana
| lived, and will not attempt to describe the
many sacred relics still preserved, but saw
| in glass case where part OF the M .. OF
| Tam 0 Shanter is kept and his brass can
dlestick and punch ladle. also small
| clipping from newspaper with the iolloW-
ing tribute to Burns:
| Though Scotland boasts thousand
names,
| Of Patriot, King and Peer;
| Ths noblest, grandest Of them all
| Was loved and crsdled here.
IT'S but a cot rooted in with straw,
| A hovel made of clay,
| One door shuts out the sun and storm,
| One window greets the day;
And yet | stand within this room
And / old all thrones in scorn,
For here beneath this lowly thatch
| Loves sweetest bard was born.
| Within this humble hut feel
Like one who clasps shrine,
When the glad lips at last have touched,
| The something seemed divine,
And here the world through all the years
As long as day returns,
The tribute of its love and tears
Shall pay to Robert Burns"
| can American"
| I asked the woman in attendance the
name of the author, and was much aston
ished when she answered. Col. Robert
Ingersol."
| visited today, 7Ch, Loch Lomond, con
sidered one of the most beautiful lakes IN
the Highlands; and II miles from where
| we took the little steamer and half way
to the end of the Loch l landed at thu foot
of Ben Lomond, the highest mountain but
one, Ben News, in the Highlands, and IN
company with brawny Scotchman, some
years younger than myself (but who gave
out several times before we reached the
summit and only continued on my urgent
solicitation) we FINALLY reached the high
| es. point, miles from our starting place
in 81 hours, and tired, don't scarcely eX-
press our condition, end at that time 9
: dense cloud which extended far below uS
) completely extinguished us, but a short
time before we had view Of vast extent
and of surprising beauty and grandeur
S which can only be realized by those who
S have seen it from where we stood. 1t re-
called the glOries of Alaska.
5 go from here to Edinburgh and
thence to London, and sail from Liverpool
TO Quebec, and home via Toronto and Buf
fslo.
Yours very truly,
Y. MCALPINB.