The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-16
plRiS lRD EDINBURGH.
DIR. BROWN VISITS PARIS AND
SCOTLAND.
He Tells Somewhat of His Expert
ences But Reserves The Better
Part Till Later Date.
Edinburg, Scotland.

We are now, MI. coltoT, III Liz
land of Capt. Jno Reid, where they
roll every and aspirate every h. 1t
was my purpose to write syndicate
letter from this point to friends at
home, but alas, all my good purposes
have failed me. We are travelling
now with a grip and shawl strap only
and in preparing my trunk for for
warding it to Liverpool to await me
there, my writing material got into it
by mistake. and in an hours walk on
Saturday evening. I failed to find
store where I could get carbon and
tissue paper, such as I used in my
fe-ner letter making. The result is
.xhas must curtail my epistollary
effort and give you the balance on my
return home.
We had charming week in Paris,
and saw much of its glory and beauty.
We spent a day among its cathedrals,
a day or two in its palaces, a day
among its tombs and day at Yer
sailies. Some of our party fell in with
Paris, and some fell out. I had the
pleasure of being chaperoned for
several days by Sumter girl
Miss Laura Mood-who is now Mrs.
Schneider, and to whom we are now
under lasting obligations. This paper
would but poorly suffice for me to
ten Of the excursions we took to-
gether.
One afternoon while strolling along.
the Rue st. Honore, I saw a familiar
face among the moving thousands.
turned and touched the lady on the
sleeve, and it proved to be Mrs
Yuomey and Miss Bright, who were
stopping at the Hotel Regina near by
The next day, these two ladies
kindIy called on US at the Hotel St
James, and give US a detailed account
OF their European rambles. You
have no idea how pleasing it is to
lock upon a face from home When
one is in a vast world of passing
strangers.
We are now in Edinburg. Yester-
day was spent in the mountain
country to, the north-the Trossachs.
BY rail and stage and boat on lakes
nigh in the land Of the sky, we
visited the haunts of the Lady Of the
Lake. We saw the tumbled down
house where Rob Roy got his wife,
The cave which he used as his noun
tain home, and many a spot glorifed
by Walter Scott. Today we are going
out again to visit Melrose and
Abbottsford, where Scott lived, labor
ed and died
hraf usoe ntIa ostum tsta yea
Yesterday was a day too full Of
charms, journeying over bare noun
fains, green and lovely, from which
the trees had been cut well nigh q
thousand years ago, leaving them
open and raked to the heaven above
I held in my hand half the time an
abstract of SCOTS Lady of the Lake,
and was almost willing to believe
q could find her footprints upon the
borders of Lake Katrine, as our
boat bore US northward around the
base of Ben Lomond, the tallest Of the
uncovered mountains. But 7 am writ
ing this poor letter before breakfast,
and man should not overtax his en-
ergies on an empty stomach. am
coming back home to tell my people
from the pulpit Of all these surpass-
ing glories of sea and mountain.
About a week more is left to us
before we sail towards home. That
time will be spent in ireland, the land
of our citizens Reardon and Gala
CHER. Our itinerary will carry US from
fhe Giants Causeway in the north
TO Cork in the south, so that we shall
take in the whole of the Emerald
Isle. It's shores, as we passed then:
in our good ship were greener THAI
the green waves Of the sea, and I am
snre trip through its chic: places OF
interest vii be no mean privilege.
The wag, when asked what is raised
4n ireland, replied, Disturbances AMI
policemen for American cities" ii
VII be my high privilege 70 iEvcsti-
gate this matter and hand in my re-
port later.
This country is full of Americans.
They throng the cars and boats and
1eetels. Even in France I heard as
Erch English as French. The ali
vdevouring American IS everywhere.
-He is Europe's principal means Of