Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-08
GOODBYE TO IRELAND
Mr.. Curtis Crosses the Channel
to the City of Glasgow.
THROUGH HISTORIC LAND
Bothwell's Bridge Where the Cove
nanter's Were Overthrown.
DUST OF THE DEAD AND GONE
Famous Cotton Mills Founded by the
Clark and Coats Families
at Paisley.
THROUGH HISTORIC LAND
DUST OF THE DEAD AND GONE

SucciaI CORRESPONDENCE Of The Star ana Inc
Chicago Record Herald.
GLASGOW. September l. nos.
We came across from Belfast tn Glas-
gov i'm four and a half hours-three and
half hours on the swift-runnnS little
turbine steamer Viper to the busy little
civ of Androssan, the scene of William
Blacks beautiful story, The Daughter
OF Heth'' Thence over the Caledonian
railway to Glasgow. ride of an hour
through what seemed to be a continuous
workshop. The lowlands of Scotland are
so thickly settled with manufacturing
towns that one is scarcely ever out OF
sight of tall chimney, while the plumes
of smoke told us that the fires are still
burning notwithstanding the reports of
hard times in this country.
Through a Historic Country.
The names of the stations recall some
Of the most dramatic episodes in Scottish
history. We passed through silent Slades
where the covenanters hid from Claver-
house; where Sir William Wallace was
chosen governor of Scotland. and the
train runs across several ancient battle
fields where Bruce fought for the freedom
of Scotland. and where to cause of Mary
Stuart was lost by the faint hearted Ar
gyIe We touch the town where Chris
topher North spent his boyhood. and
pass in sight of the farm where lived
Robert Pollok. author of that turgid
poem THE Course of Time" which our
forefat hers used to read with profit. but
which nobody in the present age would
consider worth an hours attention. At
KillwnninG enter the scene of Sir
Walter SCOTS favorite novel. "OId Nor
tality.' and there. by the way. is the
seat of the mother lodge of Freemasonry
in Scotland. founded in the twelfth CEN
fury. during the building of an abbey
that used TO be there.
BraXfield village is the scene of one of
Robert Louis Stevensons novels in which
Mcqueen. the lord justice answered the
defendant, who had just been convicted
and pleading for mercy with the
remark:
.'Ye.'re Draw clever cheil. my man
but I'm thinkin' yen be name the waur
@ hangin'."
The BraXfield estate was the scene of
the first attempt at modern communism
q novel social experiment inaugurated
by Arkwright, the cotton manufacturer
and inventor: David Dale. his father-in-
law. and Robert Dale Owen who after
ward went to the United States and re-
peated the experiment. with the same re-
suits 1t was intended to usher in a
millennium, but the undertaking was pre-
mature.
Nearby is the scene of that Quaint
ballad of Burns about the Garlic of KEEL
iSDurn BraeS, who made over his wife
to the devil but week later Satan
brought her back. because the Charming
lady was making his home too hot for
him.
Bothwell's Bridge-The Covenanters
In the village of Blantyre DR.. Living
stone. the African explorer was born and
brought up. and a mile beyond in a woody
valley of the Clyde is Bothwelrs bridge,
the scene of the final overthrow of the
Covenanters by Monmouth on June 81
l67?
Among the uplands south of Glasgow
occurred the chief event of the struggle
OF the CovenanterS and the soil is sacred
with their blood. But today while the
people adhere 10 the chief articles of
that creed, and theology is a favorite SUBJ
ject of controversy among all classes
more interest is taken in the coal mines
and the iron foundries. the rolling mills
and furnaces which light up the country
after nightfall.
The wild train plunges through the hills
II shrieks across the midnight rils:
Streams through the shifting glare,
The roar and flap OF foundry fires
That shake with light the sleeping sbires
And ON the moorlands bare
Draw thy fierce streams of binding orc
Smite thousand anvls roar,
Down 10 the harbor bars
Smolder in smoky sunsets flare
ON rainy nights with street and square