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Show Mi ' ,! LONDON, July 4. 1909. It. is a queer H' k experience for the traveler to see the H, ' excitement among tho passengers on an 1 ocean steamer when, after seven days' 1 ncpan trip, it is announced that next day laud will be in sight and passengers H, for Ireland landed. I Wo were out of our beds at one Hj , o'clock in the morning. It was twi-light, twi-light, and after a littlo we saw a cloud ! lying low upon tho horizon, and did not realize that ;just bc3'ond was the JCmer- ; aid Tslc. T went forward into the bow H$ of the ship aud there, crowded as sar- Hf dines in a box, were a dozen or more Hf' people, eagerly scanning ihe horizon. Hi What longing and eagernesa was dc- H pictcd in their faces! Their counto- Hi! nances would have made a study for , an artist. They were Irish, a number Hji' of old uien and women, some younger. Hi', j Tho older people hnd probably left ; their island home years before, and t hnd grown gray in a distant land. They H,. yrzro returning to the land of their H ' childhood and youth, not only wero they i looking for laud, but for their own na- Hji tivo laud, after years of absence. What. H-f feelings, what emotions must ba.ve been Hu ( theirs, when Ireland's grecu hills came Hp : jnto sight as we entered the bay of ( Londonderry; what a flood of early n i recollections, and fond memories must Hjj i have flashed upon thorn. .1 can in some Bj measure appreciate their feelings when Hjv ' t ' recall with what emotion I. looked j , upon Ireland, as an cntiro stranger, ,1 ' moved only by compassion for her m is- J cr3' and indignation toward her unjust Hi ' I An -Irish Woman's Wit. 11 A large Irish woman, tipping the H i !, scales at 300 pounds or more, with her M, A lin on one side of hor head and five B . v children behind her, ready to go into HBpft:t J the littlo steamer that takes off tho 4 Irish passengers and with whom I had H, often spoken about Ireland enmo up to B,H , ine nnd said: "Good-bye blister, and H ' may we meet in heaven, I will rccog- B I uizc you, and if tho angels do not H j ' change my shapo I know you will Tcc.og- j nizc me," and with a smile on her face H (( :t"d tears in her eyes sho alighted. JTor H ten years this woman had stood bv the B' -1 washiub and after her husband's death ; J two yearn ago, siic received $500 in- J surance money. She had longed for l home for all these years and home she B Yi went, then back to the tub for tho bul- H'l v anco of her life. H ' Steaming up through tho Clyde river H ' 'j between banks of natural beauty, pnst H residences and large estates, old ruins H and castles, large ship yards, we H t reached Glasgow on Sundaygreeted by H '. the church chimes and bells, calling the people to church, and soon we stood B upon land in bonnic Scotland Glasgow, j supposed to be one of the best gov-' gov-' crned cities in Great Britain, l' Glasgow's Public Utilities. B The gas. and waterworks, street cat H) lines and parks are under the mnnagC' HJ incut of the municipality. This au- PJ ' thority has also built municipal tone- m j ment houses, wash houses, bath-houses h and has full control of all the sani HTj I :t r well-being of the city. The aver- X". income of Ihe street car system Hl , !c ajcut Slb.jUO dailv: uumbur of dim; sengers carried in oco vcar, 220,6.13,-133. 220,6.13,-133. The basic fare is one penny, and you can rido on i his ticket four stations; theso are marked by posts carrying the signs, "Penny Station." It costs yon about 15 cents from ono end of the city to the other. All profit made by tho street car system is applied lo extension ex-tension and bettering the service. Two-thirds of tho British steamers are built on tho Clyde, and the first steam engine (still at the University in Glasgow) was built here (1763) by .lames Watt, the first steamer on English Eng-lish waters was built by Jlenry Bell (1S12), who therefore must be "called the father of steamship building on the Cbydc, in whoso ship yards the big Lusitania was built. The city has over 700,000 inhabitants inhabi-tants and is a great commercial center. cen-ter. Of course, ihe American misses the hustlo and hurry, the feverish excitement ex-citement of our large cities. Poverty of the Masses. The most appalling sight that greets the traveler "is the number of barefooted bare-footed women and children, bareheaded barehead-ed and in short skirts. The women carrv 4. heavy burdens on their heads or backs, and hanging to their skirts are seen a number of young ones sometimes a nursing bafy is carried by the mother or one of tho other children. The poverty is more striking strik-ing in this city and the number of unemployed very large, so large, indeed, in-deed, as to bo a cause of trouble to the authorities. Especially is this the case this year on account of tho few factories and shipyards that are ruu-uing. ruu-uing. I-jxperimcnts have been made by laboring la-boring colonies, but they have not been sucessfill. the poor stick to their abodes, like rats to their holes. It did cost the city $G per week to keep ono inmate at the colony. Under these circumstances cir-cumstances and with the thousands of unemployed, dissatisfaction and grumbling grum-bling is ' heard everywhere. The poor arc grasping after the idealistic promises hy such men as the Socialist leader. Hardin, member of parliament, and others. The public-squares public-squares and parks are on Sundays and the evenings tilled with audiences listening listen-ing to tho gospel of Socialism onlv those religious street preachers who preach the brotherhood of man aro sure of an audience. fn the inner courts of the houses, where often 150 families live, speakers appear, thundering against tho tyranny of wealth and painting the sufferings of tho poor in high colors, and it is only the truth to sa3 that the paintings , arc truo to life. Labor Supply Exceeds Dematad. Of course, here as elsewhere students stu-dents of social problems havo tried to find the real reason for thin poverty Some have claimed that drink is the cause, others improvidence, lack of forethought. But as one of the profes-i profes-i sors of the university told me, "The Scotch nation has been drinking from - the creation of the world." The. cli-i cli-i mate is damp, cold and seems to need stimulaut3. A business uiau said: "The Scotch are a prudent, closc-fiBlc1 ' nation, and can make I a shilling go longer than any other nation. The real truth is, there aie too many workers and too little work, the man who invests in-vests money wants too large dividends, so as to enable him to live without work. We may build labor enchnnges ten stories high; we may crnrii them with clerks and statisticians; get a whole lot of information stuffed into pigeonholes, but as long as Iho demand for workers falls short., of the suppl' the 'unemployed' will remain a perennial peren-nial eyesore. " Public Baths Well Patronized. Glasgow's public wash houses, with outside places for hanging up clothes to dry, are a boon to the poor. There bath "houses with baths from one penny pen-ny up are well patronized. The city is doing its best lo help, btU poverl3' is increasing. St. Georgo's cathedral and the cemetery, ceme-tery, tho Necropolis, are no doubt the most interesting places. The first was built in the fourteenth century, and contains some fine monuments, but its glory is tho "crypt." The church is frcquetly referred to in "Rob Koy." From the Necropolis one has some very fine views over the city. It contaius numberless niouuments, the most conspicuous con-spicuous tho column iu memory of John Knox. The university, with 2500 students, stu-dents, is a very interesting building, overlooking Kelvin park. Eeligious intolerance still reigns in Scotland and, as T am told, also in England, Eng-land, and list fights, breaking up religious re-ligious meetings, are frequent. The strife between Orangemen and Catholics Catho-lics still goes on. Importations of Meat Products. My attention was called to the imJ port at ion of meat into this city, the greatest bulk coming from America. In one week there was received there 2(343 cattle, 25.022 sheep and lambs. 131 boxes of pork. 3797 boxes of beef products, and 22,296 quarters of beef. One butcher told me that if this importation im-portation was not made only one-fifth of the population would be able io procure pro-cure meat. Prices are about the same as in our own home. As there aro thousands upon Ihousands of acres of grass lands in Scotland it surprised me to see this large importation, but 1 was told that most, of the lairds or owners preferred to rent, their estates to foreigners for-eigners for hunting purposes rather than trouble themselves with cattle or sheep raising. Taxing Laws and Suffrage Uppermost. The most important qncstions that seem to interest the people al present politically are the. taxing bills, including includ-ing land incomo and beer taxes, and the woman suffrage question. Even conservative Scotland roports crowded meetings and everywhere you see tho whito bndge of the Woman's Suffrngo association; its membership includes all classes, and the barmaids are energetic in advocating the issue. Tho bnrmaids take the place of barkeepers bar-keepers in the states. Men and women frequent the bnrs, but children, by a late act of parliament, arc forbidden in the barrooms. A policeman told me I that only' a short time ago a little, fivoyearold boy was found tied to a lamp post outside a saloon, .his father wanting to obey the law, but still have a drink. The father forgot the bov and went home. The humor of the Scotch is well known; il is diy. An old bootmaker who repaired mv boots when waiting, sang the following song, his .young son playing the bagpipe: Widow MacDougall. When T lieanl that my friend John MacDougall Mac-Dougall wns dead I catted on his widow her sorrow to I share: She wns making the tea and she wept us she said: "Sow, Mister MncPherson, just draw In your chair." Then I said I would come with my trunk and would stay. To help the poor widow Jlic wolf to scare. And I mind at the tabic how swcei. she would say, "Now. Mister 'MncPherson, just draw In your ehal.V Wc spoke of MacDougall, whose spirit was fled ; Of his death so untimely and virtues . bo rare; But Flora would smile through hertears as she 5ii id, "Now. Mister MacPhcrson, my dear, will you draw In your chair?" They was countless the tears for MacDougall Mac-Dougall we shed, But perhapo It wns good that himself was not there; For sometimes at night when the table was spread It was "MncPhorflon. my darling, just draw In your chair." So myself said lo Flora: "I'm thinking, my ilea r. "We have cried for MacDougall enough and lo spare; MacDouguil Is dead but MacPhcrson is here:" And I hung up my hnt and drew In my chair. ' Christian Science Put to tho Tost. The Scotch volunteers wear of course the kilt, but it is a little hard on some of them, and during the very cold weather we had in Scotland some of them shivered considerably and looked most uncomfortable with their bare knees: but the mind cure cult has reached Scotland, as the following conversation con-versation between two "Kilters" will prove: "Algy. don't your knees get cold in thnl uniform 1" "Paw jove. they did at first, but I said to them. 'Hoot! Dinna forget that my grandfather was n Scotchman,' and, am bv jove, they warmed right up to tho idea." The Scotchmen claim that the influence influ-ence of the English are making the young effeminate. Houses and Jugs, Jugs. Tho houses of Glasgow seem to be built in one solid mass of mnsonr3 no division botween the houses, even in the wealthy part of tho cit', and the curious chimne3' pot on tops of the buildings gie a lok if seen from a tower or from tho Necropolis as'if the l whole city below was one largo cemetery ceme-tery and tho chimney pots were tombstones. tomb-stones. Or.o of the puzzles that is given the .stranger to solve when he takes a street car rido through the poorer district, is why Iho jugs have such a fascination for Iho wives of Glasgow, In every house, on every window sill, were brown, red, while and black jugs jugs without handles. There were far too maav for use, of the familv. Do the people gather thorn up for a great melee lo be used as weapons, or are they keeping them, expecting a craze for Scotch jugs as there now is for Japan and Chinese jugs? Scotch Council Meeting. I"n attending the meeting of the city council ono dav it was quite- interesting interest-ing to notice tfio interest taken by Ihe members of the same, and it -must be said that a man here considers il an honor to be. a council (corporation) member. The matters that came before be-fore the council were: Compulsory notification of cases of consumption; what to do to protect the Scottish meat producer against, increased foreign for-eign importations; Glasgow exhibition in 1911, appropriating $55,000 as a preliminary pre-liminary fund: Jet I ar from the parish council declining lo bear part of certain cer-tain expenses, because for 1S2 vears thev hud not done so (and why change now?); calling for resignations of certain cer-tain hospital oflicers; road improvements; improve-ments; the placing of a sign on u certain cer-tain house; increasing wages of street car laborers and prohibiting deduction from .veekly wages on account of interference inter-ference in "work by bad weather (as they have 300 days of bad weather in Glasgow every year, it, means something; some-thing; laborers are paid ten cents an hour, thirteen hours a day, and complaint com-plaint that workers wore not given work the full length of the dav was answered by saying that it was not nec- ossary to finish tho work too soon): report re-port that the city had over 2000 tenants ten-ants in thoir buildings and that it would be necessary to increase rents iom 30 to 50 cents a month. Then thev adjourned. Tho proceedings wero entirely different, differ-ent, from ours and there were -no speeches to catch votes, nor any graft proposition coming under debate it was a business man's mooting doing business as such. Under an act of parliament called tho "Public Corporation Act." passed some years ago. Scotland has only given one case for conviction and one for dismissal. Journalist's Beard Cracks Dignity. One evening we attended the ceremonial cere-monial of conferring degrees on a number num-ber of newspapermen who were visiting visit-ing Great P.ritain from the colonies. The ceremonies, - with their Latin spooehes and clothing the victims iu their robes, wero quite suggestive of antiquity One poor member, ready to bo honored, nearly choked to doath, when one of the beadles, in passing tho bands over his head, took in the honorable honor-able "graduate's"' beard and nearly strangled him. Even the vice ehancol-lor ehancol-lor smiled. The chairs on the platform were all plainly marked with big cards, which read-. "For the Hon. Tfepresen-tative Tfepresen-tative of the city;" ;'For the Hon. Candidate:'" "("'or the ITon. Visitor V. 0. Johnson, Esq.," etc. Speaking of newspapermen being given degrees as doctors brings me to recall that a journalist recent Iv died in Scotland leaving personal piopertv valued at $500,000. and h'is real property prop-erty is not included in lliis! Complaint Against Church Corporation. Articles clipped from American magazines mag-azines have laid great stress upon the vasl income of Trinity Church corporation corpora-tion in New York, and its tenement houses. The Scotcli church was before the Court of Session the dav wo were there on complaint of one of its tenants, who stated that the house was infested with rats and that at nights these rats invaded ihe beds of the eomplinnant and his wife, ran over their heads and faces, singly and in groups, threatened to atiack them, and "could not be ex- polled by any means whatever. consequence of the shock the wi f.f tho complainant was rcmovod to. i :y? 8 sane asvlum. ': ''wait The Scotch church claimed th" Wat not relevant, and it was dismisH fr5, technical grounds. f 1 No Swearing Is Hoard. Wo leave Glasgow with regcti tIb; found the authorities, municipal itary, clerical, tho professors oi university, the policemen on the J tho people, high and low, the bo man and the. Inboror ever rendji ais: informal. ion for the stranger, nil "i and during our stay wc were moj much courtesy. . i utS? Only one thing more. During days 'we heard not. one oath from KV one whether this was simply pur M y? luck or because no profanity i Jfk'L dulged in, we do not know. .1 AM, -5 W, |