The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-08-21
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The following &C count OF the wander
ings of Mrs Newman and her COM
pagnons de roydge has been compiled
from letter from Mrs. Newman.
Mrs. Newman's many friends will be
able to welcome her home to Lincoln
about the first Of September.
After years absence, as the cards in
dictate. Miss Cora Fanny Newman. now
Mre. W. c. Thomas, will return to this
city, accompanied by Mr.. Thomas and
Mrs Angie F.. Newman, about Sep
TENDER Z. 1t is the unexpected which
happens, so runs the proverb. Truly
10 prophet could have foretold such a
denOument in August 1897.
Mrs. Newman, Miss Newman, Misses
Corinth and Edith Crook, daughters OF
Chancellor Crock OF tie Wesleyan uni
versity of this city; Miss Gertrude Mar
quette, daughter OF Hon. T. M. Mar
quette, former general attorney OF the B.
& NJ. K. r, left this city for a trip to
Europe. The party had no definite
itinerary. The Misses Crook expected
to reach Berlin by November for
winters study OF German literature.
Mrs. Newman was an American dele
gate from tine National Council OF
Women to the International c. uncil of
Women. which met in Berlin. Germany,
in October; also to the Social Purity
Congress, which convened in Berne,
Switzerland, the same month.
After few weeks in London, An
twerp, Cologre, Heidleburg, Strasburg,
Lu ,erne and Geneva. the party divided.
The Misses Crook made hurried trip
to Rome, then went to Germany for the
winter. They were still on the CONT
nent in July, when they were to meet
their brother, Prof Crook, in Paris. Mrs.
Newman, Miss Newman and Miss Mar
quette went to Paris from Geneva, then
to the south of France and sailed with
DIR. Henry P. Lunn's cruise on the
yacht Midnight Sun" for the land OF
the Pharaohs. They vi-ited Naples,
Pompeii, Vesuvius, Athens, in the ever
present glory of an undying past. Ira
versed its sacred retreats and breathed
the military spirit Of the oncoming strife,
gazed upon tbs Stadion in its Pentelic
beauty and rested in its groves Of
pepper and olive trees. Entered the
BOsphOrus. still stained with Armenian
blood. The American Wbits Squadron
lay at rest (!) in the Dardanelles and
other English gun boats breathed pro-
lection, which never crystalized. Along
the coast Of Asia Minor, where every at.
mosphere is vocal with the death
struggles OF centuries. Smyrna ard
Ephesus sccentuated the might which
had been, and Diana is still the silent
witness OF her imperishable glory.
Jerusslem-the land OF song and the
cruel story Of Saracen aud Crusader, tho
bltterest disappointment to the Christian
who fiuds little more than the "Moun.
tains round about Jerusalem" to satisfy
his research. Father Time has used
deity. swiftly his spade, and the ancient
city lives in ones dreams and in I'm.
slightly OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Cairo.
the Nile, the pyramids, ancient Mem
phis and Heliopolis. all tell of life,
struggling with Death, with Death too
often to victor.
A stormy sea-such to Naples, where
the cruise ended. Three weeks-for
Sorrento, the island home Of Marion
Crawford. the Blue Groito. Puteoli and
burae OF Paul 9 and Nero's diverse ban.