The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-10-04

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AHARfORD TEACHERS DREAM REALIZED
Leaving New York on July I for {
European trip on the magnificen
Cunard Liner "Carpathia. which i,
really a floating palace, we were soor
out of sight of land. One certainly feel.
the utter insigniicance of human atom
when for ten days there is nothing be
low us save the ever restless sea. blue
and smiling; vet it was not hard tC
realize that it could become cruel and
treacherOus and "crack mans bones
for all that" Now and then we would
come in communication by wireless tele.
graphy with some vessel that was in.
visible to US. This wireless is certainly
a wonderful invention and | believe is yet
in its infancy. 1t seems marvellous that
vessels unseen by each other could ex-
change messages. A sea voyage is de-
lightful, lazy mans paradise, nothing
to do and all day to do it in. On the
afternoon of the tenth day we landed at
Gibraltar-no description can do it
justice-a vast, frowning rock of dark
gray limestone, towering in its highest
point l 400 feet above the sea 1t is
shaped like some huge monster lion or
sphinx, | know not which, and extends
for three miles; the eliminating summit
is the head which we all have seen on
advertisements. The land around it is
entirely level so the rock seems that
much more wonderful. The yellow
houses cling to the rock like barnacles on
a ship and look like play houses with
such a background. Gibraltar is the most
cosmopolitan town have ever visited;
it is meeting of the Orient with the
Occident. On its streets were East
India and African and Moorish traders,
English soldiers, American tourists,
German Jews and now and then one
would hear French phrase-English is
spoken everywhere. The prettiest spot
on the settlement is the Alameda Garden.
1t is rich in luxuriant southern vegeta-
ton; all sorts of flowers, scarlet geran-
iums, heliotropes, aloes, coffee, almond,
olive, myrtle, fig and the beautiful state
lv palm vie with each other We were
driven across the neutral ground to
Spanish Territory. 1t was Spanish
gala day and although it was Sunday
the natives were amusing themselves
with a truly savage bull fight. The
matadors must feel very brave after
aggravating and teasing these poor
animals to desperation that they finally
kill them. We saw them returning in
grand style. glistening in armori one
might imagine that they had killed a
huge dragon of antiquity. Yet America
tolerates just as savage and brutal a
custom, prize-hghting.
Gibraltar is considered the strongest
fortress in the world; the whole rock is
honeycombed with galleries, the neutral
ground is mined and countermined and
should Gibraltar be attacked by land,
this land belonging equally to Spain and
England could be submerged in short
while and Gibraltar would become an
island. The guide told us that the fort
could not stand the armored cruisers OF
today and could be reduced in a short
space of time but that it is valuable as q
station for supplies and that there are
provisions and water to last 10000
men two years incase of siege. Gibral-
tar is comparatively new land. 1t was
unknown until the beginning of the Sth
century, then the victorious Islamites
passing along the northern shores OF
Africa, crossed the strait and founded
the town. The Mohammedans raised
Spain to a considerable degree of heather
culture, then they declined and in the
18th century it became part of Chris.
tendon Spain held it for two hundred
years when England obtained possession
of it and holds it to this day. 1t costs
her yearly ST, 100000. Spain must find
it extremely annoying to have the
English holding this place but she is
powerless.
We returned to the Carpathia and
sailed onward on the blue Mediterranean
under tender new moon. We passed
the Andalusian shore and reached Genoa
three days afterward. Genoa is still
quite a maritime power and vessels from
many shores were lying in the harbor
Genoa is much cleaner city than | ex,
pected to see. for all through Italy
typhoid and malaria Turk ready to seize
the unwary traveller. We visited the
Campo Santo, one of the most remark
able cemeteries in the world.
Here is long avenue ofstately marble
pillars and on each side of the walk en-
closed in marble are thousands of tombs
the resting place of Genoa's dead. The
tombs are of rare marble decorated with
statuary by Italian sculptors and fresh
flowers with candles ever burning. These
tombs have cost millions and millions O
francs. Oh what a mockefy There
are hundreds, nay thousands of children
through Italy that never know what il
is to have full meal, who sleep ever or
the streets, who know neither father mol
mother, yet Italy contains the world.
treasures in art and history. The
churches are the wonders of the world
and the Vatican is simply priceless in it:
relics. Italy is the loveliest country
ever saw,-sunny skies, blue waters
luxurant vegetation, but wretchedly
poor and miserable people. Not fo
worlds would advise that these precious
treasures be sold but it is horrible t.
think of hungry children in such place
We saw Columbus house up a narrow
dirty street, small but interesting Genos
has a beautiful cathedral the Church o
the Assumption. All the churches ar
heavy with flowers and incense will
continual prayers, life of constan
alteration may be very beautiful but i
is more beautiful to do the worlds worl
as we'll as we can; our work is ever
prayer