The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-17

ufday evening on tne b.O5 LackaWanHd
train from New York. At the station
they were greeted by many friends.
Although ordinarily a vigorous man,
Colonel Boles' appearance now be-
tokens much physical benefit from his
long jaunt He is the very picture of
health, and that he has walked and
been alert to see new things in old
lands Is shown by an absence of avoir-
dpois which gives him a new activity
denied to men much younger.
Congratulations OF Many Friends.
At their home on Clay avenue Colonel
and Mrs. Boles yesterday received by
message and in person congratulations
upon their safe return from a host of
friends. To Tribune reporter Colonel
Boies said
II am not a plagiarist when / say /
am glad to return to the best, the most
beautiful and the most glorious country
on the face of the globe. We have had
delightful trp-enjoyed every minute
of it and have returned physically and
intellectually improved, but there is no
place like America and home. No,
there was nothing to mar the enjoy
ment of our long Journey, excepting
during Wednesday night onahe Allan
tic, when we steamed into or near a
field of icebergs, two of which we saw,
and passed an uneasy night, during
which l did not occupy my berth. On
that day we sighted two gigantic bergs
and plunged into water registering "a
degrees and fog so dense that one
standing midway between stem and
stern could not see the bow of the boat.
Very few slept, and life preservers and
the log boats We're made ready, but we
passed through the fog and cold with
out accident. We were travellers on as
many as eight seagoing steamers and
the incident mentioned was the only
one of its kind encountered.
New. Pleasant and Instructive.
81 cannot tell you which of the coun-
tries visited we liked the best-it was
all new, pleasant and instructive and
we were constantly fortunate in meet
ing persons we knew or who had
friends known to US. 1t impressed me
anew with the fact that the world is
really small, but that our country and
citizens occupy a large portion of it.
I'VE were surprised to find it so cold
in Italy when We first landed and so
posted off south across the Mediter-
ranean to Algiers and later went five
or six hundred miles up the Nile. Here
we experienced our first tropical wealth
er and also a simeon, which, as sand
storm, is all that is claimed for it. Dust
in America is not sand in Africa; there,
a simeon rolls up a hurricane of sand
as fine as flour, which is unresistble
and of volume as dense as rain.
"In Syria we saw a strange people
and a country both barren and verdant,
especially illustrated along the Judean
mountains, whose sides are cleared of
trees by fire, and of rocks by storm
and ages. All that is beautiful seems
to have been pushed by the elements
down into great, beautiful valleys, un-
occupied even by scattered dwellings.
An Armenian Episode.
"We arrived in an Armenian port
three days after the bombastic governor
Of the province had been treated to a
SAMPLE 'of American liberty by old
Admiral Kirkland. and had been told
that he would get his d old town
pulled down on his ears If there was
| any more persecution of American
subjects. Maybe the old admirals Ian
guage was not choice, but it was en-
phatic, and made American travellers
feel quite comfortable Here we were
in party of thirty or forty, which in
cluded several counts and other titled
persons of France and Germany, and
with whom We noticed no absence of
Difference and respect to Americans.
1t was a pleasant party and all were
travellers. Together we chartered a
special train into the interior and were
accompanied. at his own request, by an
officer whose rank Is similar to that
of chief of police. He talked no Eng
lish and we talked no Turkish. so we
did not quarrel.
From Aslastic Turkey we came
homeward. doing Italy. Prussia, Ger
many and France. In the larger
cities, like, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.
we made stops Of from one week to ten
days. finally reaching London, when
we made our last long stop"
To the reporter Mrs. Boles remarked
that to her the dearest sight on the
trip was Sandy Hook, and behind II
New York Bay, with it's green sides and
here and there the stars and stripes
fluttering forth a welcome.