Show FROM SCOTLAND LETTER missionary MALCOLM NOX OF E editor aitor ROUNDUP ROUND UP thinking that a few lines from another missionary to your valuable little paper would not be amiss I 1 shall endeavor to give a brief description of my journey of miles from utah to glascow on arriving in salt lake city I 1 learned from the presidents office that there would ile be a comp company any of eight going as far ar us as new york and that five ot of this number would bo be my companions to liverpool we were given our choice as to which route we is would take accordingly I 1 with three of the other brethren decided to go via the U P in order to spend as aa much time in the largo large cities as possible those who selected the D K R G route through the pass of the grand canyon were a day later ar rivine it i new york our party consisted of A young F jacques J Sel lutte 0 knudson prof nelson an myself we hail had all been students of the L D S college and therefore prof nelsons Nel sons pupils when we parted nith him at council bluffs he be appeared to be much affect affected d our rids ride to this point was very tiresome seeing nothing not liing but largo large tracts of sagebrush sage blush and prarle prarie with an occasional ranch or small smalltown town it is astonishing bow the pioneers ever made the journey at night nigh tive we made beds out of the seats but could not sleep for the cort continual inual buzz buzz tho the conductor informed us its we ne would have nine hours to look around chicago before our last train would start for new york As soon as the train stopped our first visit was to the masonic temple after looking through gli some of tile tho large lare rooms we stepped ou on the elevator and in less than three seconds we were stan standing dirIg on tho the roof of a building twenty one stories h hiah 12 1 we could see steamers out on the lake but the stroke was so dense that the view of the city was almost obscured people on the streets below looked like sonic some of the glascow dwarfs going up tip I 1 believe I 1 would have weighed lb ibs 9 but coming down till the elevator began to stop stoll I 1 held to a i lail all lest when the elevator be at tile bottom I 1 be only halfway down after visiting tile tho stock yards and taking a ride around town en cn the elevated railroad we arrived at the depot just in time to take the N Y triin tr being tired we could sit eit on tile he cushioned seats and appreciate the grand scenery scenery of the lare large groves of evergreen ti hiees eras covered N with illk green moss and largo large climbing vines through which we massod en route to detroit Th alie train etrain only stopped long enough there for the luggage to be inspected by tile the british officer a few minutes later we were on canadian soil our course lay through the most fertile part of the dominion just north of lake erie eric it is named the garden of canada after riding about miles the train was apparently about to stop but on looking ahead wo we could see bee the long hus huspen pension eion bridge that spans tile the rapids of niagara from the lie canadian to the U S shore A very sharp curve brought us out on thia bridge Tb the train etrain went so BO slow that we had plenty of time to see all the sights and as for me iliad 1 had a little time to spare feet below was the foaming river pluri plunging ging over huge rocks ap up the river a short distance was one of the smaller falls roaring like a lion the squeaking noise noisa and tottering motion of the bridga gives a person the idea that his salvation is better founded upon a rock the direction was now due east cast for 0 00 miles winding around or the noted picturesque lakes of new york state if you want good fishing and hunting bunting this thia is tile the place we must have passed passed within a few miles milca of tho the hill bill Cumo cumorah rab but it was almost dark and we had to content ourselves by watching the myriads of small fireflies fire flies which illuminated the lonesome swain swampy py counties next morning on looking out the whole country appeared to be a vast hop bop field or rather a afield field of 1 I ry feicks we arrived in new york just after dark idere iii re asat as at chicago we were met by the hotel porter who led us to the |