Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-08-23
LETTER FROM EUROPE.
Hon. T.. II. Powell Writes Couccrning
His Trip AbrOHd-ENpcricpccs
In ireland.

To tho Editor of the Free trcsS.
Perhaps a word from your wandering
ncighhors may not como amiss. As We
are now about half seas over You Will
not wonder at any little %irrcgularity or
alteration. We are having II mos; de
ughtful trip in all respects: fine ship.
plenty of pleasant people. perfect wealth
err. good health and spirits. etc. We are
enjoying our motoring tour very much
in prospect. Possibly we may know
more when we are older. At all events
We have been congratulated upon 1t 50
long, so often and SO heavily upon the
beautiful roads and scenes in store and
the elegant views from the vantage
ground OF a position prone ON our backs
under the machine that We try To he mo-
dest IN the company of those who share
no such pleasing ~anticipations. What an
'omnium Gathcrum' an ocean steamer Is.
We have people from almost all the
countries of the north and almost all
the isles Of the Sea- Our %neighbors in
the deck chairs are on the right from
Honolulu, on the left from THE Isle of
Wight" Australia, Japan and other re-
mote regions are represented.
~ A' Oui '''hu ''iSSi Sc
ended, we are at Cork 1.-THE watering pot
of ireland" Cork is a quaint and peculiar
old city. outside Genoa. some of the
older Italian cities, YOU will hardly
find such narrow streets lined with such
old buildings with such queer roofs as
here. It has, however, some wide streets
with modern buildings and is largely af-
ter the fashion of the up-to-date bust
ness city. AS all tourists are of course
expected to DO We made this morning the
trip 10 Blarncy Castle, that huge pile of
stone that stood OF its present site.
when Christopher Columbus was born.
Tho trip on n jauuting car or other
open conveyance is a delight. You get a
fine view of the Valley OF the Leo for a
long distance, and that means much. We
had Il Jolly humorous driver ana he en-
tertained us with many amusing stories.
As we passed the insane asylum he told
of one who asked Il lunatic &c the clock
in his room was right "Av coorse it
is not, - says he. 'or it wuddont have been
in horc.' Another, who had a wheel
barrow in tho yard for his amusement
always kept 1t wrong side mp. When
asked tho reason Of it he replied: IF l
keep it the other side up somebody will
put some bricks in it!' That kind of
lunacy is not found alone in asylums.
The castle itself Is interesting, mainly
for the elegant stretch OF country you
can see from its summit and the famous
stone in Its battlements. In the matter
of oscillation we forbore for reasons
satisfactory to ourselves. Had our visit
been made before the Entertainments Of
medical science had demonstrated the
imminent peril lurking even in the
"Baby's goodnight kiss we might have
hesitated TO have been held by the heels
out over a wall one hundred and twenty
feet in the air to have kissed the stone
even for the boon 1t promises, But now
with all that we have learned. think OF
the myriads of microbes that have been
skating and dancing over its glossy sur
face these many generations. We didn't
risk 1t. Excuse us! one man living in
Cork fell the full one hundred and
twenty feet. 1t IL admitted that he
sprained his ankle In the fall. BY the
way what wonders modern medical In
vestigation has wrought, Were Esculapiu,
to reappear upon earth, how long
would 1t take him to catch up? Will
expectoration In the highway has not SC
far as We know been held as q sufficient