The daily sentinel., 1909-03-09
BY BERNARDLEE RICE
Grand Junction Man Studying
Abroad, Ciues Superb
Description of Fam
Gus City


deeply rooted condition of affairs
where men are not poor but absolute
ly destitute, eager to labor for a pit
tance, yet by combination of cir
cumstances deprived of the privilege,
merely existing from day to day upon
charity and the very refuse from well
laden tables.
We would not for a moment be
harsh with our friend, rather SYM
pathize. Indications of a noble effort
to. right the wrong are evident on
every hand Princely generosity
seems rife among all classes. There
are college and university settle
| ments, missions, free hospitals. free
soup and buns, free breakfasts, free
distribution of clothing, all apparent
| ly conducted with wisdom.
Conditions seem TO be particularly
calculated to display the weakness
of this city, whereas her neighbor
goes untouched. Seldom do you find
The darker side of city's life so ex-
posed to view. The sons of poverty
walk the same streets with the we'll
groomed and cultured. institutions
of learning are surrounded not only
with students and professors but the
totally unlettered. The bookseller
seems omnipr esent, there are art gal
leries and museums, university and
college, noble cathedrals and church
es set down right in the midst of sur
lroundines of quite the opposite char
acter, as we are accustomed to look
at such things. Beautiful Edinburghi
the pride of the Scotsman in whatso-
ever land he may dwell; dark, un-
lovely Edinburgh the subject of re-.
gret to all who know of her reproach.
Yet she displays what others hide,
and she is still Edinburgh the proud,
the beautiful, the great.
And so in spite of the distinct
shock that comes to the Westerner
on first realization of the inequalities
that prevail in the city, he still, If he
truly senses the temper of the COM
munity as a whole. must go away
better for his visit. He will take
home not only heart of sympathy
for misfortune, and mistake perhaps.
but just as surely will he be filled
with a mighty reverence for this an
cient capital of the North. The
Athens of Scotland is a title well
applied; and, though "Auld Reekie'
with its dark though good humored
Significance be still used, yet there is
a good reason why we should prefer
| the noDler designation.
| In this city we behold the cradle
| of Presbyterianism, which in turn is
always the parent of republican in
stitutions. Here were born a sub
stantial number of the men who in
the past have made up one of the
strongest elements of American cit
izenship. She is still doing her great
educational and religious work for
the world. as glimpse at her record
and the present state of her insti-
tutions will show. The very build
ines themselves reflect the temper of
the men who created them. Their
solid strength of stone, scorning the
sham of plaster imitation, is strik-
ingly in harmony with the stern, i'm
movable, yet frank and kindly tenn
per of the Scot The style of archi-
lecture is preyailingly Gothic with
just enough classic Greek and Ro-
| man to lend variety. Good deeds and
noble service are commemorated by
many handsome monuments distrib-
uted about the prominent places of
| me city. There are a thousand in
| fluences to make a man better If he
be inclined to be so lead from baser
| thought and life
1t is narrow indeed to criticise be-
| fore conditions are fully understood
| and particularly so when there are
always to be found fresh points of ex-
cellence worthy of imitation by our
unfinished cities of the West. Neg
rect and oversight for many years
have brought about a serious social
| problem, which the citizens are today
nobly graphing with. 1t is easy for
a new world to do new things. With
less difficulty you build a new house
/ If you do not have to make room by
| tearing an old one down.
We came to Edinburgh forarmed
by rumors of raw, inhospitable eli
mate, and cold, formal people. We
leave singing the praises of weather
very mild for the season and of peo-
pie who have proved the most loyal
friends the world could provide. See
| Edinburgh. Learn to know her, and
you will love her.
.sow give us men from the sunless
| PLAIN,
| Cried the South to the North,
By need of work in the snow and
Made strong, and brave by familiar
| pain,
Cried the South to the North
"'Give strenuous souls for belief and
| prayer
| Cried the South to the North,
| Who stand in the dark on the low
| est stair,
While affirming of God, He is GER
| tainly therei'
| Cried the South to the North"
b. L. RICE.
Oxford, February %. 1909.