Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-26
lc. c. Young.S

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 We are now in North Italy and about four hunderd miles north of Rome. The latitude of this place is about four hundred miles north of the latitude of New York: so you will see we are in what is called a northern country, very near the Great Lake region of Italy and the Poetical land of Switzerland, into which we will go from here.
 I ate dinner today in a European dining car and the rate at which the food was served to me was like war time or something else which moves at high speed So different was the sarvfce from the hotels where one whole hour is required either for lunch or dinner and where every thing moves slowly. But in the dining car the wait CT stood near and often grabbed the plate as I was taking next to the last 1 bite, and most of the time did my chewing after he had escaped with the plate The first that came was sar- dimes and I told him that I wanted 1 two of the fish; but as addressed him in English he did not understand, and before I could get breath enough to try my French on him he was away | of pouring one poor little sardine on the plate of European. l remarked that he could make more money kill 1 ing rats than waiting on a table. A lady from Florida wanted to know why and I said that he could kill so many rats if he walked at the same rate he served food.
 Milan is that part of Italy which was for centuries called Lombardy. It has been the battle ground of Dukes and Lords; and Spanish and French lhaye occupied the territory and finally the province came into united lItaiy which was made when Vic tor Emanuel the second became the 1st king The city of Milan has many fine
 things about it; not so artistic as the others in Italy but such a clean Iplace. The air is cool and ennerya- ting and the climatic appearance re- minds me of Ashville, North Carolina.
 The Alp mountains are very near and
 this affords Milan a climate which none of the other cities in Italy have
 and thus here there is the meeting
 of the life which likes the cold weather
 and the life which is fleeing from hot days.
 I visited today the suppressed Mon
 astery on whose wall in a dining room
 Leonardo de Vinci painted his master piece called the Hast supper" or Jes lus dining his last time with his twelve
 apostles. It certainly is a masterpiece
 and to me it was the qualification oi a long cherished desire. Though made
 in 1500 yet the picture stands out or the wall in such a manner as to make |, you see the real men and not th' painting on fiat wall The table leg Hook as though they had come iron E the turning lay last year. Each fac' Iof the persons in it shows the char
 acter of the man. Judas is holdint the bag and his hand neryOusly nov | ing about in the excitement of tn !, intended betrayal of the master ha + overturned the salt cellar. Peter :, standing on his feet, gesticulatins wit his hands as if saying that if all other should flee he would not but woul q die with his Lord Thomas is holdin d mp one hand with the pointing inde finger as if doubting the meaning c
 lhis master who has just said that O }. the morrow he is to be crucified. Tn y picture is in bad repair but not at a destroyed. as I had so often heard b'
 fore seeing it. It Is the only gres
 painting in MilaE but it is an inspi
 ling one to artists There were severn !. lin the room at work on copies an k the guide showed me a, copy whic s, one man had spent years in makin
 and had died just as 1t was comple' a- l[t is true that Napoleon's army use ? this suppressed Monastery for st
 ton and commissary during the vi
 in Italy. It is fact that he told h
 soldiers not to damage the pictul
 and it is so high on the wall that tf
 Iordinary round of life in an arll te icou1d not reach it. Napoleon preser IF ed more art than he ever destroyed, in fact he took better care of art tres sn ures than he did of his men.
 ,n Lombardy is now one of the ve he strongest provinces of Italy, and VI of in Napoleon's time; and it was he nt In the great Cathedral that he VI
 drowned king of Lombardy and ltal
 the last of which he never did qui
 get hold of, as he had to hurry out
 lsoon. Even while he was being crow Ict ed in the Cathedral the city of Mill a+ was being bombarded by the eneu of and many of the rich windows we fly broken by shells aimed at the hti re Corsican Corporal
 'P The Milan Cathedral is the pu iE ', Gothic. aFcaitecure and is an l
 posing sight On the out side 1t