The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-07-29

| VI DCdullIui EulUpuIUns
After our tour we returned to Glas.
gov, where we found another special
car waiting for us, where we took
seats in our moving palace for Edin.
burgh. Edinburgh is so beautiful that
we were loath TO leave this famous old
capital OF Scotland. But we left Edin.
| burgh in our special car for Melrose,
where we broke our journey. Mel
rose, our present headquarters, Is ia
nous because of the Abbey of ST.
Mary, founded by David in 1926, and
was the. home of the first Cistercian
community in Scotland. II is built in
the usual form of Latin cross. The
carving and stone work is magnificent,
although it has no regularity of form.
In it is the tomb of Michael Scott, the
wizard, and Robert Bruce's heart is
buried in this churchyard.
We secured carriages at Melrose
and drove to Abbotsford, on the Tweed
river, the home of Sir Walter Scott.
This old mansion is very interesting
for among other relics it contains
swords, armor, blazons and relics of
antiquity. We were shown through
the study, library, hail. drawing room
and armory of Scott. We saw his
books just as they were left at his
| death. The grounds are very artistic
and you would think that this was an
old palace.
In the midst of this scene of great
historic events and among the tombs
of great men whose glory brightens as
the years pass, | am reminded that
these great men do much for their
country after they are gone, because
in financial way their life and name
bring to the land thousands of tour
lists who spend and leave more money
in the country than all the products of
all the farmers; so that country is
greatly blessed by having had chill
dren born on the native soil that af.
forwards became famous.
But | have not described my party
and named my noted people. While
we were in Edinburgh we met two
Nebraska Methodist minister's, Rev.
DR.. l. +. Roach of st. Pauls church
of Lincoln, and DR.. J. r. Gettys of Da-
vid City. In this second party there
are twenty women and one man. OF
these ten are teachers or college pro.
fessors Mrs. Lucy Henderson Rob-
ertson is president of the Greensboro
Female college in North Carolina, and
Prof. E. Porter is in the same college;
Mrs. II. X. Klingerden is the wife of
u mi r1in nf
Lake City; Miss Mary Jones of New
bern, n. c., is one of the very success
| full teachers; Prof. ID. o. Christenberry
has the department of English in the
| Southern university of Greensboro.
Ala. Over half the party is from the
| Southland, and they are all very
| lively crowd, and it so happens that
the most of the party are Methodists,
although there are Presbyterians, Con-
gregationalists, Baptists, one Jewess,
but there are no Christians among the
number. and this is to be regretted,
because the Baptists can hardly keep
up the baptism discussion.
Lost His Hotel.
Some of my party have already had
some peculiar experiences. One young
lady lost her purse and was greatly
excited but it was found by one of
the railroad men and returned. Then
thought our troubles were over for a
| few days, but when we reached Edin-
| burgh it was late in the evening, but
as soon as dinner was over Prof. d..
o. Christenberry went out to see the
city and, being an educational man,
he fingered until about II o'clock, but
when he started home to the hotel he
could not think of the name of the
| hotel or the street or number, and he
wandered around the city for many
| hours in the dark until about morn
ing, when he finally found the hotel;
and, being an elderly man, he was
about used up. Moral-When you go
to hotel and leave your baggage and
go out into the city, always take the
name of the hotel, the street and num-
Der.
This seemed the end of our trou-
bles for time, but the next night we
We're aroused at IL o'clock with great
excitement that one young lady had
been robbed and this kept us awake
about all night, but, sorry to say, the
theft was not caught.
But, in the face of these little trou-
bles we are all happy and are having
a delightful trip. The people of Scot.
land are a charming lot-that is, the
most of them are. They are generous,
clever, obliging and ready to render
advice or, rather, information. The
people, however are so slow over here
in Scotland, and then there are so
many begging as you go from town
to town. But the scenery is grand and
the Scottish lake region is surely
worth a trip across the Atlantic.
1t is really strange how many Amer.
lean women are travelling in Europe
and England without their husbands,
and also how many there are who are
making final desperate effort to find
one husband, while some women have
husbands TO burn.
l must bid farewell to beautiful Mel