Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 14 September 1905 — Page 3

IN SCOTLAND Another Descriptive Letter from Foreign Shores Hiss studabaker Again Writes Entertainingly of Her Tour Abroad.

Oban, Scotland, July 30, 1905. Dear Dick 1 have heard from Ly English friends, and we are to Lp and see them after leaving kales on our way back to London, kousay the garden is fine and the wheat is cut, and there is a fine L op in the garden. But little Ljjeat is raised in this part ®f SootIsod. It has just been -cut. The L ts is Still green. A great many Ltatoes are raised. Here and in England potatoes have white, pink [r lavender flowers. This is a bar L n country. The highest hills are Ireen, but there is no depth of soil. Eheep raising seems to the the prin|ipal industry. The sheep are [mall. From Edinburg to Inver[esswesaw many. At one point [n the road'we passed the highest level of any railroad in Great Britain. The fields and hillsides Bere dotted with small black sheep, ■bout half the size of our co mmon ■beep. Here the sheep are larger Li all white. We very much enjoyed our ride from Edinburg to Lverness. Much of the scenery ■ very interesting and we passedL many historical places. The Lt point of historical inerest we L-ed was Dunferlnie. In the old ■bbey Robert Eruce and other ScotLh monarchs are buried. Quite ■ear the railroad are the ruins of ■ecastle where Charles I was born. Be passed through Stirling and Bw the castle on a near by hill. Bill visit later. At Perth a town B 32,000 population, our train Bayed an hour. Though it was Bi?scheduled for twenty minutes, ■we did not leave the car. His■neilly it is an interesting town, ■lie Fair Maid of Perth.” ot Bott. romance lived there and hei ■use i< pointed out. It was there Bat James I was assassinated in Bite of the heroic action of CathBne Douglass, who thrust her Bm through the lock instead of Be missing bar on a door and Bed to prevent the entrance of Bs'.assailants. He was the samt Bines Fitz James of Scotts “Lady ■ the Lake,” and to me a most Beresting character. He is the Bbyal Poet” of Irving's story. B tells of his youth as an English Btaintive. But he was a man in ■rance of his times and introduced ■or”: people were not ready ■. 'IV-re too Perth is the site B Scene Abbey (nothing left' ■ere the early Scottish king■recrowned. Beyond Perth out Birney was over the Highland ■lroad. considered one of the most ■Wifal lines in the three king ■“’■ Ten miles from Perth we B-'td around the base of Birnam B T'Vo splendid tree- 1 , an oat Bsycimore. are said to be left of ■>rnam wood which came to Dun ■® e - in Macbeth. It is a beau B'sreen mountain country. Al ■ leaving Pitlockry we went B the wooded pass of Kilim ■““e. a wild looking place, Bretne troops of William 11l Bdefeated in 1689 by the JacobViscount Dundee (Clav B™ 8 6) Scott makes a stirring B»Hveof it in “Old Mortality.” B’Vju reached the highest point and were shut in by B»tains about 4.000 feet high, ■"'•trees. but covered nearly to by short green grass or We are fortunate ■ ,L - hert in the season to see B/ a iher in bloom. There are ■ ta - varietios, of purple heather its heather is rare, but we !eeil a little. We have seen ■ e . ue of Scotland, a modest ■L Ue fluwer, the purple thistle, ■^^ muc b like ours; the backB, °b is a large coarse fern and B^. ln profusion on the K v ' es an( l in the meauows, and Scotch flowers, which h as made familiar to us. BIL & ' V fr°m since have. J 6 from the ground ■ ing stacked ready for fuel

Going . down the mountains we passed so many summer resort here are several large states and une castles or other residences. Ihe climate is much like Mackinac. Here at Oban I am constantly reminded of Bay View, though the Firth is smaller than the bav. On the boat yesterday I heard one gen tieman telling another abcut Mackinaw. I presume he was also reminded by the resemblance in climate. One man was German, the other an Englishman. But Inverness is much farther north. It i« 57 degress north latitude. That is the farthest ncrth I have been. Decatur is about 41 degrees. Just before reaching Inverness we mossed Calloden Moor, where the famous battle was fought. Inverness lies in a beautiful situation on the hills on both sides of the river Ness, a tew miles from where it empties into of Beauty, an arm of the sea. The Gaelic word Inver means “month of.” The town is called the capital of the Highlands and has a population of about 25,000. We visited the principal places of interest. Among them the county buildings, which are modern and built in the form of a castle. They stand on a hill, which was th o site of one of Macbeth's castles, and by some said to be the scene of Duncan s assassination. In a promi cent place on the hill stands a large marble statue of Flora MacDonald, who bravely assisted Prince Charlie the Pretender, to escape from Scotland after his defeat. It was I erected a few years ago by one of her descendants. Saturday morning we arose at half past five, ate breakfast and drove some distance to the pier, where we took the boat for the Caledonian Canal. We thought we were going to have lovely weather, it began so fine, but in an hour it began to rain and it rained all day. We had to stay in a stuffy cabin. The route lay through four lakes, connected by canals. The largest of the lakes is Lake Ness. The scenery all the way was beautiful. Green mountains shrouded in mist were on both sides. We went through many locks during the day. Sometimes we were ascending, sometimes descending, then again ascendiig, following the elevation of the different lakes. At Fort Williams we left the bo.it and took the train for a mile or two and then at Banavie took another boat which was waiting for us. There we had a fine view of Bentain). We passed just at its feet. Loch Linnhe was the last lake we crossed and came out on the Atlantic Ocean, where we had quite a swell from the sea. It was about seven o’clock when we reached Oban. It had been a long day with many pleasant features, out we couldn't help thinking how glorious that scenery would have been in sunshine instead of rain. We arrived at Glasgow Thursday night. I cannot write more tonight, only to say we stayed at Oban from Saturday to Tuesday. Monday we wertallday by boat, around the Island of Mull, stopped at Staffa and saw Fin gal's Cave. At lona and saw early Christian and DruidiCal buildings, cemetery where Macbeth and other Scotch. Dane and Irish kings are buried. Rough on the Atlantic Tuesday all day coming from Oben to Glasgow. Rain poured all day. Got wet through in tne morning. Rode on rhree boats and two trains. Beautil ul scenery, pleasant people, traveling and that made the journey less tedious. Today we took a trip through Lock Lomond, Loch K.. trine and the Trosachs, rail, coach and boat. Rained. \\ e were on top of coach in Trossacks. Rode eight miles in rain. Too windy to hold umbrella. Tomorrow we go to ahr and Burns’ country. Love to all, Hattie Studabaker.

A VISIT AT CORK. Cork. Ireland August 13,‘05’. Dsar Dide:—We have been travelling husilv rue list week, and I have been so tired at night I have written only postals, no letter home. Tne rainy weather we have been having seems to have at last broken, and yesterday and today have been pleasant sunshine. Until then we had only two days in over two weeks without rain. Often we got wet and our enthusiasm for beautiful scenery begins to weaken, in Dublin we had one fair day. That day we spent in the art gallery and the museum. The art gallery was interesting to us chiefly because of the large of portraits it c-ntains of prominent people. In other gaU-rjes we pur-

traits are often interesting chiefly because of the artists who painted them. But in the Dublin gallery it is the fame of the person painted which attracts one for manv of the painters have not an international reputation. Among the portraits were those of Goldsmith, Swift, Curran, O'Connell, Elna Burke, Robert Emmett, Steele, Lever, and a great many other famous Irishmen, besides Scott, Burns,and men of Scotland and England The museum is very fine and complete in many departments, particularly animals, fish, birds, furniture, china and glass, lace and examples in plaster of the architecture of the different periods and ; n different countries. The next day it rained all day, but we visited St. Patrick's cathedral, protestant since the reformation, and saw some famous tombs, among them Dean Swift’s and Hester Johnson’s, the “Stella” of his writings. It is a fine old church in a miserably dirty part of the city. From there ■ve went to Christ’s church, which was rebuilt a few years ago at great expense. The man who furnished the money for it, bankrupted in doing it. It is an old churchjremodeled and rebuilt and the old part dates back to the twelfth century. The castle which contains the official residence of the Lord Lieutenant and state rooms and barracks for a garrison is not fine nor particularly interesting. When we arrived there an East Indian Prince was expected to took over the palace, and we had to wait nearly an hour until that was over. By the way he and his family were staying at our hotel, the Snhelbourne. His wife looked like an English woman. They had a baby and the nurse was an East Indian woman in native costume. The prince was a small slender man I with very dark complexion. When j we were shown through the state j rooms of the palace we thought them plain, but were told that■ when they are furnished for state occasions they look fine. Among I the portraits on the walls is one ! of Lord Cornwallis. It looks just like those we used to have in our school histories. The ceiling of the ballroom is frescoed and the I center panel represents George! 111, supported by justice and freedom. It amused us It must ' have been painted many years; ago, for surely all intelligent peo- 1 pie must realize now what a blun- ; derer he was. We visited the other chief places of interest. We ■ entered Dublin Monday and left it Thursday in the rain. Our train was slow and we were six hours ' going to Limerick, south of Dub- ' lin. The country is beautiful, but near Limerick Junction where we changed cars for Limerick, it is poor and ttere is much peat. Limerick lies on the River Shannon and is a city cf 30,000 population. It seems to have no enterprise in ‘ proportion to its size and is the i dirtiest town I ever saw. unless it is Killarnev, but it is so much bigger than Killarney. There is no 1 street car, so we drove about in a i jaunting car, the only means of’ conveyance, to see the town in the ! rain. 1 sent Dick a postal card, ' and the picture is true. It was hard to hold an umbrella against the wind a"d hold onto the oar, as ' it rattled over stones. But before j we got back to the hotel rain stopped for a little and then began . again. Among other places we saw : the “stone of the treaty” of 1689. We had another half day's ride from Limerick to Killarney, changing cars at Mallow, where we got luncn. I have said | that Killarney is an unusually dirty ' little town. It lies in a beautiful location at the side of the upper Killarney Lake, with Purple mountain in front and other mountains ' around it and it has some very pretry residences and hotels. The drives about the mountains and long row through the lakes are the chief features. We started in a coach yesterday morning and had a . beautiful drive along the lakes and across the mountains, twenty-two miles to Kinmare. We stopped there an hour and had lunch and then drove on nineteen miles to' i Glengarriff on Bantry Bay. The most beautful spot in all that beau- : tiful country. When we first saw : •t we had been climbing for miles 'i over bleak mountains, when we.i turned a corner and came out on a i crest and suddenly before us burst ;i tjje view. We Were 1.200 feet . above pretty little Glengarriff,:' which ay w the side of Bantry, a ; lang arm of S 6S < extending »v»o

miles into the country and the hills and fields about the town were vivid green. At Glengarriff we changed coaches again and went on to Bantry, twelve miles, also on the bay, but near the mouth', where we expected to spend Sunday. But the town looked so unpleasant we went on to the railroad station where we had some tea and took the train for Cork. We had had fifty-three miles coach ride and then about twenty in the oars. We have made the acquaintance of a very pleasant English lady and her husband and have been together two days now. They are middleaged peeople. This afternoon we went on the tram out to Crosshaven. There took a steamer over to Queenstown. Stayed an hour and came back along the harbor. Tomorrow we expect to go to Blarney Castle. Tuesday we will return to Dublin, get our mail and Wednesday morning cross to Wales. Hattie Studabaker.

NINETY-ONE Grandmother Ferry Celebrated Her Birthday An Enjoyable Social Event Given Yesterday at the McMillen Home. Monday was Grandmothei Ferry’s ninety first birthday, and the event was duly celebrated a t the home of Dr. and Mrs. W. P. McMillen in a most elaborate style, and in such an impressive manner that the event will long be remembered by those present, and especially Grandmother Ferry, who seemed to enjoy the occasion as never before. The house was beautifully decorated for the event and the home presented a most pleasing appearance to the onlooker. The parlor was decorated in pink and the sitting room in green and white while the music room was finished in Michigan vines entwined here and there. The piano was banked with fall roses, as was the bookcase and mantle, while the archways were decorated to corret-pond. The dining room was a bower of ferns and palms, which were beautiful to look at. At 2:30 o’clock the guests commenced to arrive and were received at the door by Miss Naomi Gregg, who filled the same position nine years ago at a similar event. The guests were ushered to the recaption room, where they disposed of their wraps, and were then ushered into the parlor, where they were greeted by Grandmother Feny in whose honor the event was given, and by Mrs. Dr. Campbell .of Orville, Ohio. After all the guests were assembled a program whicn had been arranged before was carried out, and which proved to be the surprise of the afteyioon. Miss -Naomi Gregg of Kokon.o opened the same by reciting an original poem composed by herself and dedicated to Grandmother Ferry. Tnis was followed by an original poem written by Mrs. W. J. Meyers which captivated the crowd and which is given further on in this article. L. A. Holthouse then sang the “Holy City” as unlv Louis can sing it, he being accompanied by Miss May Niblick. Mrs. Hunt of Winchester, then sang a solo, which was received by mu h applause from her audience. Mrs. Fiovd Brittson then recited two poems in a pleasing and captivating manner. This was followed by Mrs. Robert Blackburn, who sang an melody, which was without doubt the crowning featuie of the program. All the ladies present then contributed to t e program by making short speeohe , all of which were directed to Grandmother Ferry and conveyed the best wishes of those present. Mrs. George Flanders presided in the music room amid a bower of Michi- . gan vines and served frappee. I Miss Minnie Orvis then read messages and letters from relatives and friends, who extended to Grandmother Ferry their kindest wishes for the future, and their sorrow that they could not be present and aid in making the day long to be ten embered. These missives were received from New York, Port Huron, Mich., Chicago, 111.. Seattle, Wash., Tacoma, Wash., Fort Wayne, Bluffton, Bellefountain, Toledo, Ohio, Petersburg. Straws-

burg, Germany and Cincinnati, Ohio. At six o’clock the guests were seated around small tables while in the dining room Grandmother Ferry presided over the large table, and a three-course luncheon was served. Miss Blanch Carroll assisted in this, at which time all the dainties of the season were served. The last course consisted of ice cream and cake, the cake being a mammoth affair, which had been especially made for the occasion, and was known as Grandmother’s birthday cake. It was a large two layer affair surrounded by lighted candles and on the same in golden letters was inscribed the following “1814, C. P. F. 1905.” Immediately after the luncheon was served the guests began to depart, wishing Grandmother Ferry many more such happy events. The out of town guests present were Mrs. Dr. Campbell, Orville, Ohio; Mrs. Hunt Winchester and Miss Naomi Gregg of Kokomo. The event was one of t-hg prettiest social functions ever given in the city' and reflects great oredit upon Mrs. McMillen and daughter, Miss Minnie Orvis, who conducted the same, and left such rn impression upon their guests that will not soon be forgotten. As for Grandmother Ferry it was the crowning feature of her life, and for one of her advanced age, stood the affair in elegant style and today feels no ill effects of the same. Under protest the author, Mrs. Myers, permits the use of the original poem read: One day an invitataion came From a kind and jolly dame. “Come arid assist in the celebration Os my ninety-first year’s circa ation.” I’ll come with all my heart Though may do but humble part. 'Tis given for Mrs. Ferry The one so young and airy. Age to her will never Come near, She grows younger every year.

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