Show ACROSS A CONTINENT constantinople oct 27 1898 1298 since my last letter to co the news I 1 have had the pleasure of crossing another continent after spending three weeks in merry england I 1 found myself one morning being gently rocked on those waves wavea that axe are still storming the dykes of holland the ride tram from the hook to tio rotterdam through tte tho green meadows speckled with counties herds of kine told me at once the origin of the famous dutch cheese and my longing for milk only satisfied after several goblets et the sweet white fluid had been taken calling at isaac hubart street I 1 met elder paul roelofs who spent the forenoon with me in the quaint old city of rotterdam the park lying between the city and the sea is the home of at tranquility tranquil ty and the palace of pleasure how as it possible we asked each other as we wander through these sylvan scenes for sin to bo find a welcome in the hearts of those who live within euch calm retreats as these dusk round found me irne in the keisers kaisers kai sers empire and a midnight I 1 heard the cannon cry Han loverl my knowledge of the german lang language mage was just sufficient clent to render my conk amor scriptural tor for it was net nei ther more nor less then than ya ya and nein nein 1 text morning in the most moat 1 remarkable manner I 1 found elder pen rose and elder vickers with whom who m the day was spent in visiting saints and J 1 I viewing sights eights for order cleanliness sand beauel beautiful ful surroundings surrounding ih hanover canove J is the washington of europe a resident 13 city tather rather than one of smoking fur naces the Herm Herrn hausen garte ne are aft simply ch aming we were there sit at sunset and the evening air seemed aft fresh and clear and pure as la a morning 1 of spring in the mountains of won t flowers in their never ending variety yu gave their sweet odors to the winds winda and the numerous spark lIft fountains threw a million pearly kisses to their bw twinkling Inkling beaux of shining fishes darted through tl ante splashing waters like bullets balleta of gu gold cutting their way through baths batas SC of mercury A pen so poor as mine can a never paint in words the faintest out lines of such fairy grounds as thoe beautiful as they are the travelers ad mi ration of art and nature still ii creases as such sights as berlin den and vienna come before his ebow the main street in the city tot for berha er united den linden Is excelled I 1 in beau ty as one writer says valy aunly by as charming sweetness of its own name the georgeou sly decorated hindoy win along the streets of this city espe in the glare of ten thousand thoua and alai ft electric globes of almost every known present a sight eight of ff richness monuments on every buwe howera up to speak of praise of i dead hero of whom the germans to sing of course in an old c city berlin beilin one cannot hope to find no t of uninviting spots the chattle of kaiser is almost everything from richest spangles of royal affluence really shabby cornero eor ners and from delac del finery to dirty surroundings riding through the country is ea a vei pleasant pao pastime time the farmers mostly engaged in digging their pc p crop in sonie some of the fields there w be two or three hundred people i women and children gathering in as treat great harvest of their summers toll toja W women umen and oxen seem to be a ve ne cesary adjunct to the prosperity german agriculture traveling is just about as you 11 lik on the fontinet contin cont inet etaf of europe that la is go 90 as cost and style go my ticket second class and nicely cushioned seats in small compartments where six or eight persons ride I 1 was often the only one in the room I 1 was often the only one in the room and the passengers are usually shut up between stations and the doors opened again at the depots these cars with side doors are much more convenient for the large crowds of people who ride on the trains in england especially are they found to be of great service as time savers at the stations in one of the crowded depots in the south of england I 1 took the trouble to witness this advantage over our american style of long cars with end doors A train pulled in and in just forty seconds two hundred passengers had bad emerged from the train and as loany more gouldh ave entered in the same game length of time fourth class tickets cost less atan a cent a mile in germany I 1 rode front from leipzig to berlin and return for less than seven marks A mark is 20 cents the distance between these two cities is about loo miles my good fortune was to meen elder A 3 stewart who was just going up to the capital or I 1 should have missed that grand visit as berlin was not on my route third class costs double that alf jot fourth second as much again as the third and the first class still twice that of the second and the style and convenience are in proportion to the amount paid the scenery along the line east of Lel leipzig paig is mostly that of fields broken occasionally by a forest or a green 1 topped hill but as we neared the city of dresden the surroundings became romantic castles tower above the tree tops tape on the very summit of those wood ed hills along the banks of the elbe V ra river ver and near at hand the well tilled gordens ehing along beneath the VL verdant elevations seemed like agriculture bowing in gentle meekness before proud architectures throne during my stay in dresden I 1 visited the he catholic church services to hear the annous fat nou music of the choir it was wonderful erful and grand with the organ with instruments and with loud sounding horns the walls seemed to echo with a harmony almost divine the me lending of sweet toned voices with that concord con cord and chorus of mellifluous trains would almost make one wonder if all of natures tones from the deep doling cords of the clouds to the thrill log I 1 ing tongue of the canary had not lent their songs of symphony to the throngs f martial singers while they sang their In rooming orning anthems in the church der grosse G gatten aften gat ten Is another of t those fair lands of flowers and fountains tales elders snow taylor and done eare re here in dresden and they made my tay a doubly pleasant one with a right i gamo mormon rmon welcome in fact if the mi mis s lenaries lon aries had not been in all these I 1 larg arg ler or cities it is doubtful whether I 1 should have taken a single stop off clear across athe the continent prof A C lund at supple gave me the address of our young etonian Uto nian mu clan cian prof J A anderson Ander smi now ludying music at vienna on arria tg at this Us of austria found the whole city deavil r drapic tn 11 mourning over ever the recent tragic eath ef cf c f beir beautiful and beloved press ons one day dav in vienna with pi of anderson Ander Mn waft waa a rare treat ahe hp tran libity of P rj f e lorn darn park tho be deaca I 1 scenes of hanevy hangovers Han overs es flower beds the he anly of t and th 1 1 if all gathre rl bore hold a woun drous fair at the famous hon brunn I 1 shall not attempt a de for fear some one who has n the place might also read my half ild id story stort I 1 left theat city with no ore address of elders to call upon and 9 one in the world to welcome me in v the next great city but the lord ver er forsakes those who put their ot in him before I 1 arrived at budapest a gentleman made my acquaintance and another arrangement was made for a stop over in that hungarian paradise I 1 thought the attractive sights were passed for me but to one more awaits the traveler here in budapest unsurpassed in any land or clime after dinner I 1 made my way up to the old fortress on the hill which overlooks the city my journal of september says 1 I am there at this writing in command of one of the most delightful and entrancing views I 1 ever beheld beneath me lies the danube separating the two cities of buda and pest steamboats are gliding from bank to bank and from bridge to bridge the city stretches out into the misty distance in many directions and presents a scene of indescribable grandeur while I 1 have been sitting here watching the mighty concourse and endless streams of humanity in their course of business the scene has changed from one of house top shining with daylight to that of countless brilliant torches burning in their mighty splendor throughout the whole city it has been a transition from misty midday to a glorious effulgent nightfall As I 1 look down upon this nocturnal view it seems as if the universe has been inverted and all the are burning from below electric lights here and there shine with the brillian cey of the first magnitude stars while gas jets and feebler flames of oil are duplicating all the varied twin klers of the sky the spectral danube stretching through this earthward galaxy of man made stars present a beautiful counterfeit of the milky way while the darting boats with their glaring headlights look like slow moving meteoroids on the face of the up looking picture it was an impressive sight indeed and as I 1 descended that mountain through the darkness and came into the rays of those dark dispelling fires c of cf f human invention and walked over the gigantic highways under which were glimmering the merri ord flames of lamps along the rivers bank I 1 felt so much enraptured with my visit to this elevated spot that from my heart there came instinctively a prayer to god to bless the city of budapest I 1 know not what are the sins of her people but I 1 do know that she gave to me a stranger in a strange land a sight the like of which I 1 did not think was on this bounteous earth of ours two days later I 1 spent a few hours in bucharest but the contrast was so great that it had bad few charms for me the ride down the black sea from constanza to constantinople was as smooth as sliding over glass and the sight of tills this city from a ship deck on the is one more glorious passing closing scene in the great panorama of crossing another continent J W BOOTH address british postoffice post office constantinople ti turkey |