Show 1 I 1 1 r SUNDAY THE EDINBURGH SABBATH COMMENCES ON SATURDAY NIGHT 11 everybody EverT body in its ikast nib bit aud and tucker churchward Hound lifeline off scrip hareli tare by the yard of 0 tilt th StreetT street tho lio churches ono must come from the north into mh 1 I 1 burgh either by fife or stirling como by 11 stirling Bt irling by all ail means for or them Is no castle in I 1 europe that r sit rits its so proudly on its it great el cat rock as beautiful stirling but as you love your I 1 ease never go into the sc scotch atch capital on a I 1 sunday nowhere in all the world doc does ro religion ci cramp amp its devotees devotee with to so tight a tit mail as in scotland 1 baas the japanese and the abo only people who really enjoy i cliflon leli cli glon in germany no ono seems to have ony any in franco france spain and italy they pray it in the morning for tear fear of hell bell ire fire and d danco a nee lu in the ilia afternoon with joy because their du ty is done la in england they pray because their pi ayed a cd and because se it la Is one of the customs i ot of the country then they pass tho the rest of 0 tho the day ae as pleasantly as they can without giving a bad lad example to the lower ordera orders lu in america well in america it can not be said that religion is allowed owed to interfere seriously with the comfort st Df any ones onos sunday and therefore to an american the full flod flogged ged divinity hedged scotch Sab batto is ing of curiosity tho the sabbath had already commenced on the saturday night as 03 we drove past the great hilling shining on princes street to a cozy little hotel on of st andrews square A hurtling bustling landlady and throe three buxom maids aret us in fit the little vesti vestibule little where a great bowl ot of the tho little white frosty made ina do the air sweet and fresh I 1 ONLY 0 LY every on ono eman nian woman and child seems to love the little white floer and to wear ft it na familiarly familial ly oa as they wear the button buttons on their coats but this wa the only frivolity that could be seen in edinburgh on this holy 0 sat saturday arday evening ii the sabbath had lad already begun with preparation and prayer find and there was even eren a stillness in the streets etil euch such as is unwonted on a saturday night in less holy communities either tho ilia bustling one of the buxom inroads left a little notice on the toilet tollet t table ible to the effect that services took on sunday in fit the lie morning from aitto ll to 1 in the I 1 afternoon front iron to 4 and in the evening fro from T GM to 8 and in some more devout chapels from 0 to tho the great keeper of items will remember on the last day which one we chose ivhon when we came into the bright wide clean streets next morning edinburgh was thero there in fix its lt best bib and tucker churchward bound the curious part of it to an american eye was that tie men then went to church just as scrupulously as the women for at homo home religion Is for women alono alone there never was a Scow scotchman hinan yet from donee david deans forward or back lack who could not reel off by ll 11 alio 10 yard and the flavor it gives their conversation makee it rich and strong they looked tobo to bo a dogmatic and thoroughly convinced set of men MI not hey plodded along through h t be bab sabbath of the alamia city composing themselves as they went for prayer mothers wives and slaters were disposed to relax a little of their usual sundy severity for there were whole flocks of lads from front 14 to 18 years who looked queerly enough in their shot t jack kete eta toll tall shiny hit and big white col collars lam in the groups IV ive s leard eard that it 1 was I as vacation time in the big public schools alof of great britain and these would be mrry lada lub were home for their holiday solemn little men they looked to bo be with something wi faintly suggestive of charle charles dickens boys in their mannish clothes but they became common sights enough as we wandered wondered farther south and the utility coat of the ilia american youth began to seem old fashioned instead OF THE STREETS the curious stillness of the streets finally began to explain itself for every horse in edinburgh was having his sabbath in fit his lis comfortable stall and not a wheel rolled in fit tho the great clean hilly streets even the tramways were silent awl ani deser deserted teti no one 01 e bears hears of a street car from the time they aca leave e new yolk till get back again and every one ono v who lo 10 wanted to go to church wont on foot there ore are plenty of churches tor for them nil all though the traveler tra cares for little else in ili that line than liti torio io bt st giles oili whose whoso thal ham 0 steeple loomed temptingly at us through hit tilt mild hazo haze that hung over the classic city oah ih to ma mako ko it more beautiful we did lind find a godless young fellow stand lag ing by a hansom cab down in princes Ilin clis street that beautiful terrace thoroughfare which is the pride of auld reekie and wo ire did rattle along in ili through it discomfort for a nu mi ot i with the vain hope of seeing some tight end and not joeln loffing on an entire oday day but we BOO BOOI I percee led by faces of the diioli ude tilde mho w ho arrew themselves and gazed ili horror at it the mere were sight of us u that it c were really shocking their honest 83 wo we alighted much discomfited aul and no mil wo gaio gave the cabman abound lallia first 1 for dri ving lib his cab on a sunday rat uil breaking tho himself and then for ix us who were stranger strangers to the liy to break im cafa it over 0 er again but tho cabby refused to feel badly baal proclaimed himself lil bom with no caro for 8 batch atch bont ense and for bis lis part bad never seen en any american who know when Sunday buri loy camo came this reflection en tho the entire nation we passed coldly end and proceeded to do a little tight sight seeing on foot thero there Is a along long dip like the swing of a litoni I 1 between the great castle on its impregnable nab Is hill at the one no end and the towers an and d to icum ats and column colum ot of tho the cat bill oli on the other D fit li san ban francisco argo mut |