The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-30

and many other places of interest, among
them the West End park and Botanical
Gardens, which are unsurpassed in
beauty and grandure of plants and
flowers.
From Glasgow we visited Ayr, the
the birthplace of Burns. a spot rich in
his memories; where he married his
Bonnie jean and penned many of his
sweetest lyrics and smartest satires. The
chief objects of interest here are the
Burns statue, the "Twa Briggs" the old
churchyard containing the graves of some
of the 'divines enshrined in the satire,
The Kinks Alarm the Tam O'Shanter
Inn where Faur and the Souter sat far
into the night, INDUCING in indiscreet po-
tatIons, the cottage where the poet was
born and which still contains the bed in
which he first began to be that various
thing called man, and other relics to fas-
cinate the eye and stir the emotions.
About mile from the cottage stands
the Burns monument at Kirk AIloway,
on the banks of the Bonnie Doom, which
bloom as fresh and fair now as in the
poets time and which he has celebrated
in strains that will only perish with the
language. The Old Brig O'Doon. dating
from the fifteenth century, and Alloway's
Aud Haunted Kirk, immortalized in Tam
O'Shanter as the scene of the most in
tensely real which dance in all litera-
tu~e"
Miss Mclaughlin, on Italy. said in part:
The next day we went to Pompeii,
which is about an hours ride. passing
some very fine old Roman acqueducts. As
you all know. Pompeii was an old Greek
commercial city B. c. so, was conquered
by Rome and became a favorite resort
for her mobiles and emperors. It was
overthrown by an earthquake, A D. 63
rebuilt, and in 70 buried under twenty
feet of ashes, from Vesuvfus, where 1000
people lost their lives Excavations were
begun III I7s4 and are still being carried
on. The last house we visited was the
best preserved and had only been I'M
earthed three years. The painting on the
walls looks as though it might have been
done last year. Il was in this house that
we saw plumbing almost as modern as
today. The pipes were in the walls and
had been used for hot water.
The shops, taverns. homes. etc. are
very interesting. All the top stories were
burned, but the lower ones are preserved
in a wonderful manner. Some of the
places are Temple OF Venus. Forum. pub
lie baths, bake shop. soap shop. two
theatres tragic and comicl, amphitheatre.
the house Of PansS and Germanicus that
are described in Last Days Of Pompeii.
overshadowing this buried city by the
sea IS VeSuvius, purple ard misty in the
afternoon light Before starting back 10
Naples we tried TO get some lemonade.
You would think in country where they
grow lemons it would be easy 70 get lem
onade. The only way possible is 70 make
motions as though you are squeezing
lemons tip the wsiter. make motions ana
then perhaps he Cthe waiter would pre-
fer selling beer at - cents 4 bottle. While
on the subject OF drinks might say the
wine is a vile coneoction OF sour grape
juice and warm water. If they make any
good they must export il. Surrounding
Naples are vast market gardens wstered
by a primitive system OF irrigation from
wells sunk in each field. The land IS dot
ted with these queer looking wooden wind
mills run by mule power. The whole
country Of Italy is cultivated Ike a gar
den-the women doing the vverk. There
are hundreds % mulberry trees Standing
in rows. sustaining long festoons Of rrapa
vines. Italy is land OF queer sights.
could tel You abou, macaroni. but as
K.pling says that's another story.
IL you have ever ridden On a ccna-