Show FROM GENOA TO ROME saving leaving geneva I 1 proceeded on aney via nice and monte carlo assed ased through gli lyons on the way oking king out of the window I 1 saw sev al 1 ladies Ladie of lyons they did not I 1 am m ess es me as though they were their loving clandes it if they nging aging around the railway station th h that alm aim in view I 1 would advise em m to go take a wash in due time e train pulled into marseilles you d I 1 an all nationalities around you here a I 1 of every kind from the rich amer n EI who has his yacht in the harbor the starving turk using the curb ne ae for a pillow marseilles is a very lively town for its there is generally a great deal ag g on enough to keep one alive any ay y what interested me more than thing ing was the old castle dlf dif the d government prison in days gone e it sits on ia a small island out in n e bay gang GA ng donw to the dungeons dungeon s u are shown the cells of dumas roes oes edmond dantes and the old be e who wrote a book with his own od d with a pen made from a piece of n i hoop and a small tool made from piece alece of table cutlery with which he ent it through foot after foot of solid ne ie lots Ks too bad all his work came to aught on the walls are sad compesi ns s of poetry carved by one prisoner mes acs ics and drawings by others who re e shut off from the light of day le ie children grew old from youth Is s pitiful to see the remembrances t behind if the old walls could only ac how many pitiful tales they would old aid tor for our hearing I 1 was shown the 1 I where the celebrated iron mask e ill III starved brother of a hard arted arted king ot of france was confined d then removed to the dungeons of marguerite in all this old prison a is the most moat interesting thing I 1 ve e ever seen I 1 did not mot stay long in marseilles but shed tied on to nice it Is just as nice its name beautifully situated on e shores of the mediterranean with berous beautt beautiful ful and large hotels th i a luxuriant growth of tropical tropical cai its in and around it while the ets are lined with gum and ches t trees making it very pretty pigs BUS pes aes pineapples oranges c are on all sides no wonder the h darlings make it their favorite rein winter it being the most treated spot in the whole world for a ter resort its salubrious climate led d by the breezes off from t the he sea je it a paradise on earth monte lo 10 0 o Is just a half an hours ride by in a froni from here most people stay in pe s while bucking the tiger at monte course I 1 visited the world renowned ce e to my sorrow several times the ino no slits upon a small hill manding riding an excellent view of the abor or the whole body of the hill been converted into a beautiful t with numerous fountains playing ile people throng the promenades ning ining to the baand or eating lee ice in M it is a truly beautiful spot I 1 r saw sa w a prettier the interior of jaein a elno o Is ia where the interest cen the tamea being the magnet that va s human beings are its victims 9 et in you must present pre senit your card if n necessary you will then given alven a oard card free of charge admit you into the parlors Every everything thil t meets your eye is rich end anid grany cranfi walls and woodwork being covered fine paintings and carvings the I 1 n rs a number three they are build aln an extra addition at present they large and roomy here and there a gaming table waiters in gaudy orma ate are flying around attending heir various duties some serving ks to the crowd or players playe irs every g K belag being free there are about a dozen roulette tables end and five or six trentes trent es qua Tente thirty and orty fi the smallest piece alece or amount you can play is five francs one dollar from that up the tables babies are always crowded with fond seekers of fortune most of them leave empty handed or lighter in the region of the pocket once in awhile some lucky men or women carry abway a nice liitle pile they generalao gener alay come back again and lose it though with a great deal more added to every one knows of some one who has made a big winning to lose it all again it is of no use my repeating any more tales bales those lettle marbles in the roulette table have ended the life of many a man or woman in their merry ramble around the wheel some poor devil loses losea his all goes out and puts a bullet through his head or takes poison pol soni thousands of such cases have happened it causes the ruin of many a virtuous woman who goes and loses a great deal all unbeknown to her husband to retrieve reprieve her losses she will go to any length if a person loses much the bank will furnish him a ticket home to any part of the world that Is ia if he goes broke they try every way to lessen calamities as it gives the other players a dose of shakes to have a suicide the bank is a stocked concern any one can purchase shares ait the quoted figure the lease has just been renewed at a fey millions arrill lons advance on the old one monte carlo as every one knows Is situated in the principality of monaco Mo inaco a small kingdom on the southern coast of france tit it has its own government and king although it only covers about as much ground as salt lake city the king makes the most moat ot of his rev denue from the lease on the casino merchants and all business men around monte and even in nice are not allowed in the gambling rooms only traveling people it Is 19 done so money left in the hands of various people wont be a temptation to them and so business men wont ke keep ep coniti continually nu ally failing as aa they would woul d through their losses leaving monte I 1 went to genoa the birth place of columbus of course I 1 saw where the venerable egg cracker and discoverer was born genoa like all other italian cities is most beautiful at a distance it stops there A close observation sickens bickens and disgusts who cau describe an italian it is beyond mayet me yet I 1 weli try imagine a 9 narrow winding alley with towering buildings on each side withe with a smell like a rose in a slop pall pail everything blending in a dirty greasy color yet they reason out in their way that americans Arne rIcan must be awfully dirty because they wash so do often there is one pretty corner in genoa where several of the many streets meet it is formed in a circle with a row of trees circulating around the curb while a large statue of victor emanuel centers it here is where the life of an evening centers its pretty park on one side being a favorite resort for the mashers and I 1 will say genoa has the prettiest lot of girls in italy in the cathedral here they have the remains of john the baptist a few of the thorns from the saviors crown and a d dish diah ish used at the last supper speaking of thorns they have the whole whale crown in notre dame paris a few of the thorns in the cologne cathedral tb edral a few more in st isaacs immes st petersburg half of it in one of the kremlin churches moscow and a few more outside of the moscow walls in a little church they also have a painting of the virgin and infant christ painted by st luke it is the first ume time I 1 ever heard luke was an artist I 1 have seen several paintings attributed to him up to the present time of my writing every second person yobu meet in some Ital italian lall town are dhonies or priests so they keep a good hold i on the people it is neddies nedd less for forme me to explain the countless palaces the walls covered with fine pictures and works of sculpture I 1 went through it makes you go back to the time when genoa ruled the whole western coast of italy and sent her galleys to venice very near conquering that proud city they have erected a fine monument to columbus near the station he stands holding up an while a figure representing america is kneeling to him hdm it is carved out of one large block of beautiful white marble lea leaving ang genoa I 1 arrived the same day in milan it was morning before I 1 got a glimpse of the far tamed famed milan oath edral it is indeed a dream of carved marble worked out in every fantastic design possible just imagine a building covering twice the ground the salt lake dake temple occupies built entirely of white marble with some statues peeking out of every little niche or placed on each of the numerous spires shooting up in the air you must go on top to get an idea of its immense beauty and design everywhere your eye rests it encounters numerous spires loaded with statues of ef every description you wonder if man has not nolt surpassed nature in this creation inside them are numerous tombs and statues one statue impressed me mure more than anything else it being a man skinned wita his skin thrown over his shoulder its workmanship is so perfect that it makes you shudder to look on Rs its bulging eyes cords and tensions all carved natural to life its ita a sight one wants to but never can forget last but not least they showed rhe me part of the of thorns thorn also some finger bones bonea of peter and paul along with a number of other things among them another of lukes pictures and a towel the savior wiped his feet on at the wedding feast I 1 went and saw the great picture of the last supper by lenardo dia da aln vinci 1 I one of the best beat known pictures in the world it was painted op on the wall of an old monastery bry at present it Is a shabby scarred up affair with the figures hardly outlined when tome commenced to erase inthe ignorant monks got a very interior inferior artist to retouch it so at present there is only ft A little coloring of the great leonardos Lea nardos left the blue landscape through tatt window Is all that reminds us of h man it is amusing to hear american and aad english people rave over ita ifa coi CoS wc putting themselves up as of art not knowing the fhe colors colony of today are mere daubs daub ol of mr inferior artist the being taw th only thing worth noticing one arner amera lean came up to me and afew unta and was boasting about his knowledge of art he said now for instance look at the coloring in the faces could anything blend abre do factly and the receding drab thas on the saviors robe perfect pel feel we cant equal those old f tr coloring now I 1 have studied for yeara and have met all the eilent artists of the day but such colorni co coloring lorli 10 ais aa Is before us is beyond us re he continued on in this strain until I 1 showed blip from a book I 1 had with tie me that the present colors were only ordinary wen well he colored up in the true style wa when ien lie he found out what a tool fool he had made of himself hims el f I 1 wanted refrained froza frons telling him he was a direct descendant without a break from balsams Bala ams ass JS 00 had an appointment asp about that alg and quitted us at the swe sweet et tuna buhe tu He ha ha ha most all colors sefe I 1 P ip 1 X same to me I 1 always spot ls as being the best I 1 gue guess s W t education has been neglected D 4 nt bat the life of me I 1 cant paintings of fiery angels N etc I 1 have got so 1 I oan 0 tell ato most of 0 the subjects are as is you sei about ten thousand of each subject only by different artists when I 1 see a man tied to a tree with a dozen arrows sticking out of his body with an angelic smile on his face I 1 know it is st sebastian Sebasti sn when I 1 see a in man inan an with a key in his hia hand I 1 say st peter A man with a bag of gold with writing materials always answers to st matthew A studious looking person mooring over a book with skeleton of a skull by his side is always st jerome and so on through them all what spoiled this picture more than anything was its treatment in the hands of the french napoleon could not steel steal it as he did everything else it being on the wall so his soldiers used the room for a dining room while they amused themselves with throwing bones potatoes etc at the figures figlure s of the apostles in a few more years there will be nothing left of this great work as the walls around it are old and rotten with age I 1 visited the cemetery where there are a great many fine monuments A custom among the idaa italians lans is to have a photo of the deceased set in the monument some being very large I 1 drove around town visiting an old amphitheater reminding one of ancient times milan is one if not the greatest of business centers in italy having fine shops and a great many manufacturing industries the one point of interest though your eyes continually wander to the cathedral I 1 craned my neck out of the train window to get a last view of this boni wonder ler when I 1 started for venice I 1 stopped off two hours in verona while I 1 visited the house of juliet I 1 wanted to play romeo just to say I 1 had in verona but could get no n 0 one to 0 smile on me I 1 arrived in the enchanted city of venice at ten in the evening I 1 can not just describe my feelings on my arrival it IE was waa hard to realize that I 1 vaa as filid gliding ay iy 1 1 iw w he be grand canal with all those old poe poetical pi palaces laces I 1 had read about and dreamed 31 3 dimly outlined cut lined on oil jach ach y of the ibe canal and after winding through several smaller streets I 1 glided beneath bert eath the well known bridge of sighs I 1 put up at one of these old palaces turned into a hotel called palace royal dan elli aih the next day I 1 was up early that is what the mosquitoes had left of me the first place I 1 aimed for was the bridge of sighs I 1 had bid to 0 go through the doges boges palace first the palace has its walls covered with paintings of ancient masters such as Tin Tint eretto paul Verone ses titian and many other well knobil known artists we wander up the giants stairway through the senate chamber the council room of the ten alno albo the tae council room of the three we have all heard of the dread three they are the ones who received the denuno denunciations lations through the well known icons mouth there is only a small hole in the wall to mark the spot where the lions head was with the box where the writing went the three decided whether they were important or not if their suspicions were in the least excited the person was secretly arrested brought before them condemned passed through the passage connecting with the bridge of sighs over the bridge into the dungeons to be tortured and then mur dered the remains were put in a sack taken out with a weight attached and dropped into the sea to feed the fishes you ton can see numerous names on the dingy damp old walls made by poor devils or another condemned to suffer not knowing his fate until he was led forth berth to be killed you can see numerous holes in the rock floor of the slaughter room for their blood to run out into the sea they used to do things up in a hurry in those days it gave them an appetite for dinner to udean some poor devil there was no appeal from the sentence of the three venice was first commenced through fugitives taking refuge to escape from the robber knights and barbarians who were going through all italy it kept growing until her merchants and galleys were the strongest in the world she took constantinople on one occasion and came near being the strongest government on earth the church of st mark is by far the finest and most handsome building in venice it is built in the old gothic style with numerous domes and min erets etc while inside ahdout and out it is literally covered with representing bible features some of them axe are so well made that it bakes a very close observation to distinguish them from paintings pain tings they are made up from crom millions of small particles of colored glass all put together so perfectly to form these large pictures that you wonder how it could be possible on the front portico stand the bronze horses of venice these horses have traveled a great deal they were first made to grace an arch in rome they were then stolen and removed to alexandria stolen |