Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-09-30

for breakfast and discovered that we
could not have hot breakfast
These experiences combined with the
! fact that our room was illuminated
by candles and was most unattractive
| shortened our visit at Am bleside and
sent us to Windermere where we
were we'll cared for (but not after
Fra's Hubbard's fashion, for week.
We have taken the star away from
the Queens" as Baedecker has
placed it. | fain wonld talk Of
"Boots" a parsonage who knows
everything but the thing which his
name intimates b.. should know, viz,
to polish boots. He cannot dc that.
We liked the English Lakes and
the hill country. We coached to
Coniston, the home of Ruskin and
we spent a day at Grasmere where
Wordsworth wrote his best verse in
Dove Cottage. We caught glimpse
of Rydal Mount where he spent the
later years of his life. We had some
fine coaching to Ullswater and to
Keswick-the hills covered with
heather and heather bell and hare
bell. The hedges of hawthore and
rose. studded with wild popies, the
fox-glove and thistle by the road
side-all these made the landscape
peculiarly beautiful. During the
coaching trips we met some pleasant
English people and were agreesbly
disappointed at their warmth Of
greeting and friendliness. I should
like to tell of the many conversations
along political and economic lines,
of the high tributes | heard on every
hand for President Roosevelt, of the
evident feeling of good will telt for
the American people among all
classes. But I must hasten along
and tell of the trips to Bonnie Scot
land. There is no use in making
comparisons between the English
and Scottish Lakes; they are both
unique and each has a glory of its
own; and fortunately inanimate
things do not depent upon argu-
ments and comparisons for their own
satisfaction and beauty.
The Scottish Lochs possessed for
mea great charm. Nestled down
amid he hills which Scott has inn
mortalized, and fed by thousand
silver streams with waters placid as
glass, revealing most wonderful re.
hections, they we're fit objects for
poet or artist, and their beauty is
beyond the power of my pen to de-.
scribe.
We took the trip from Oban to
Inverness by the Caledonian Canal.
Our steamer passed thru twelve
locks during the journey. We had
boat rides OF lochs Katrine and
Lomond and Awe: we had glimpses
of several others. We enjoyed a
little shower while coaching down
from the hills to Loeb Katrine, but
storm in the hills is sight worth
being wet for.
Edinburgh, the Queen of cities, the
modern Athens--is deserving of a
visit from every lover of the artistic
and quaint in the city structure
Nowhere have we seen such care
taken of the parks and streets and
few cities can boast of such a noble
site as can Edin burgh. The castle
which has seen some stormy times
and where Mary Queen of Scots often
fed for refuge, has commanding
situation. Cation Hill with it's menu
ment to Lord Nelson and Cation
cemetery with it's statue of Abraham
Lincoln in memory of Scotsmen
who fell in our Civil War, the lordly
memorial to Sir Walter Scott and
one less ornate but representing
equally perhaps the affection of
Scotchmen for Bo5by Burns; Holy
rood Palace, the scene Of many
festivities and of many tragedies all |
these lend charm and grace to the
city. We visited "Old-town" and
saw very pronounced slums. Walked |
down Canongate to the honse OF
ohm Knox and past the place where
Bobby Burns was made a Free |
Mason and the house where Moray |
lived as Regent.
I must not leave out the day spent
1T St. Andrews, the Mecca for golfers