The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-15

IS sure to explain, if he has a little
 time, that while he is willing to live | within the Kingdom, he is a Scotch man and no Englishman and that
 Scotch he will be until the end.
 This is a gloomy land, of short
 summers, long winters, and much mist. But, curiously enough, the sun | was shining nearly always, and, coal 1 being gone by the entertainment of
 the strike, the city was most wonder | full.
 Edinburgh, like the other cities of | the United Kingdom, is a city of l chimney pots, dozens on a building,
 and at the bottom of each, a, fire | place, in which in normal times is
 mendously strong in smoke produc- | ing power and in comforting heat | units
 | One fire place can smoke up a 1 hundred feet of street.
 l Many thousands of such fire places | burning all at once produce an effect
 unknown in America, outside of Pitts | burgh, as Pittsburgh used to be But l this the Americans missed, for the
 coal strike had palsied nearly every
 fire.
 | While the Americans were here | there was not only sun, but the good
 light endured until eleven o'clock at | night, and it was easy to read a news | paper at this hour. Scotland is on a | line with Labrador, and the sun | rises early and retireS late in summer. | There is drinking in Edinburgh, | but not many signs of it are to be seen on the principal streets, and the | hours of sale are much restricted.
 This is still the city of Knox It has the Puritan Sunday in strict | form, though it used to be stricter
 On On Sunday TO trains are operated. The restaurants close. Even the
 ruins like Melrose and Dryburgh Alp | bey, are closed Sermons are long, although any Edinburgh minister will | tell one that no souls are saved af- ter the first twenty minutes"
 | The street cars cease from troubI-
 ing, but by an excellent dispensation
 the charabancs are permitted to run Hosts of tourists visit ancient places | which they may see, but not enter 1 for it is the Sabbath. The home of hnoX IS preserved, quaint old
 dwelling in which the stern theo1ogian | thundered forth precepts which are embodied in the character of the
 Scotch His was not an easy religion.
 but in the Scotch hotels we did not lock our doors.
 are the national heroes of Scotland,
 even above the Wallace and the
 Bruce. Monuments to them adorn every vantage point The best of
 Scottish art is erected to their glory.
 One part of Scotland is known as the
 land of Scott and another as the land Of Burns. To these shrines, those rom every part of the globe make |
 that are yearly increasing. No land so reverences men of letters as Scot land does.
 Brilliant was the reception given to the Rotarians by the Lord Provost
 Marshal who answers to the official
 who, in America and England, is called mayor. He is reminiscent of the close association which Scotland al had with France in the days when | trance was the dominant nation of Europe, and it was doubtfuIt to which
 alliance Scotland would go. Two great theatres were thrown open to us. In one Sir William Ben son gave performance of Twelfth Night. In the other Brandys Will
 nams, the noted interpreter of Dick- ems, was the star. These famous ac- tors are British Rotarians
 On the last day of the convention } save one, British and Americans join
 Tn the election of a Canadian to head the international Association of Ro-
 tarians for the year. On Friday. June IT, 5000 persons were en route Tor London, where one festival fol- , lowed another from the morning of the 18th of June until the 3oth. The British Rotarians soon returned to
 their respective cities. but the Ameri- cans go on to Paris. from which they } some few of them will go round the 3 world: Most of them will be on } this side for three months
 5 Many Of the London clubs are l thrown open, Windsor Castle is visit } ca, and many other important points Many automobile tours, usually with tea' the great British function. are 5 arranged, and there is apparently nc end to this hospitality nor to the de- 3 sire Of London to please the visitors
 inVltat1ons pour in from every Ro- = tary club in the Kingdom and any ? Rotar.an who accepts one of these l invitations is sure of a warm vel l come A few of us. more venture
 some than the others. accepted an ] invitation to Belfast, for the openine ! Of the Ulster parlianen ent. I shall tell you in another letter how the 8 King came to Belfast O