The daily sentinel., 1907-02-02

whatever. People in the most re-
mote parts Of the balconies heard
every word he enunciated as clearly
as did those who sat around him in
the organ loft.
Mr.. Bryan's lecture dealt with his
travels in the old world. review of
the conditions existing there, icompar-
isons and contrasts of life across the
sea with American life. In his
charming manner, marked with rare.
clean humor, he covered field as
broad as the old world itself and yet
his lecture was in no wise disjointed
and in no point tedious and uninter-
esting.
In opening he set the audience to
laughing by some good humored ref
erences to his political career. He
stated that he was glad to speak out
side party points. He stated that dur
ing the past ten years he had plenty
of opportunities to speak on political
matters and that he must admit that
he had improved many of these op-
portunities. Some of these politi-
cal speeches were not appreciated
by all the people. evidently. he said
with a merry twinkle in his eye. He
declared that he had been accused of
preaching sermons when talking poll
tics and of talking politics when at
tempting to preach sermons. Il can
only account for that" he said. "by
the fact that there was very little
difference between good sermon
and Democratic doctrine" He jok-
ingly remarked that 1t was impossible
for him to make a political speech
nowadays without somebody accus-
ing him of stealing President Roose-
Velt's speeches, they talked so much
alike these days, but he declared that
it was the other way, that Roosevelt
had appropriated some of his teach
ings.
Mr.. Bryan stated that he and his
family did not take their trip around
the world primarily to see the wond-
ers of nature, for these America has
in as great abundance as any coun
try on the globe. The tour was
made for educational purposes and as
such 1t was a greater success. He
stated that words were inadequate to-
iittingly and truthfully describe life.
conditions, etc. in the old countries,
they must be seen to be really ap-
preciated and understood. He stated
that he would attempt to deal with
those objects and subjects about
which little had been written so as
to avoid repeating many descrip-
tions given by other travellers and
writer's.
He told of the beautiful spots of
the old world and his descriptions
were magnificent and most inspiring
He had visited the ancient city of
Damascus oldest city In the
world He described this outpost
Of the Mediterranean country before
the desert is reached and where.
from the nature of its location. a city
must always stand. If he had to
choose summer resort, he would
choose another outpost-the city of
Stockholm where fresh and salt
with residences on many of these,
and thronged with boats filled with
happy throngs. If It was n question
of choosing a capital for the Old
World, there could be no other place
to consider than Constantinople, |
haf
a beautiful city with its picturesque
mosques and buildings
He dwelt upon the rivers of Eu-
rope and Asia and declared that in
them he was disappointed. In his
school days. when he was wrestling
with Latin he had concluded that
the Tiber must be a mighty river. but
when he saw 1t It looked small and
insignificant to him. He always
thought the Danube. the bluest of all I
streams but it did not look blue to
him. The Rhine. in all its beauty
and pictueresqueness was not, in
his mind. any more beautiful than
the Columbia river of America.
His description of some of the
lovely lakes he visited awakened the
highest interest. He visited the
lakes of Scotland and Switzerland
and other countries but to him Lake
Tahoe was the most sublime in its
Tahoe in America was the most sub
lime in its beauty.
He told of the days spent in Nor I
way and on the Fijords. he described
the midnight sun Witnessed from one
Of these fijords and 1t was a remark
able piece of word painting that made
up the description. Mr.. Bryan made
some startling statements regarding