The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-07
Those Sacred Songs.

Those Sacred Songs.
No school teacher attending the insti-
tute can afford to .eave the city without
a COPY OF the Sweet Sacred Songs" Ask
Miss Clark, your music instructor. about
them.
FAIR BIKERs ON CATTLE sHIPs
! Raw P,yckv Cir, Tourists Circumvent tho
High-Priced Ocean Liners.
New York, July 6.-With.n the last few
! mmonths the regular ocean lines, with
some exceptions, have raised their
| rates Of passage. The state room ac-
! communications that could be secured
for s75 last season are now 500. But
| that does not deter the female tourist.
She takes passage on a cattle-ship for
$50, s45, or even $40; this economy she
| supplements by taking her wheel along
with her to avoid miles Of railway fare
on the other side. The passenger LIST or
a cattle-ship that sailed from New York
| last week, ship room for thirty saloon
passengers, showed only five men
! names, the others nearly all having the
prefix Miss" before them. On the pre-
vious sailing date Of the same line. there
were only four male passengers regis
tered, while the bachelor maids were
numerous and the proportion of bicycles
taken along was eleven TO twenty-one.
Most OF these passengers were teachers,
| lecturers. or students in some branch or
art or literature.
On the steamship Manitoba. which
| sailed at $50 this morning, there were
sixry-three passengers. and only four
men on the register. Il have eaten
hearty breakfast in order to fortify my
self against the avalanche of questions
1 shall have to answer today" said
CAPTAIN Griffith. THE majority Of our
passengers are always women. but never
| quite such a majority as this"
81 would rather go across on cattle
ship than by the regular passenger
boats" said a young woman who makes
not only a virtue but a pleasure OF ne
cess.ty. I'm the first place, the cattle
| ship does not toss and roll like the 9TH
ers. owing to its heavy freight, and, in
! the second place you are out at sea
twelve days instead Of eight. and, there
| being SO few passengers. each comes in
| Cor share Of individual attention from
! the ships officers and attendants. The
cattle? On, the ventilation is so per-
! feet that you would not know there
were cattle on board unless you went
where they were, and they really add
| interest and variety to the voyage. The
| passengers are admitted to all parts of
the boat. and not only the cattle and
horses but the men in charge OF them
are a study
| Some young women have planned a
wheeling tour through England. Nor
mandy, and Brittany that will take
seventy DAYS. and expect to spend. from
the time Of embarking to the day they
| are set down again in New York, $500
each This trip has Paris for its objec-
| tive point and includes excursions by
wheel and boat TO various towns and re-
| sorts that could no. we'll he reached by
wheel alone. Pioneers who have tried
the experiment say that il is cheaper in
| the end 10 carry ones own wheel than
| to depend on hiring one abroad. The
| owners wheel Is superior and in better
condition than the hired one, and the
cost Of using the latter is very nearly
| as much IL the end as TIE payment for
| transportation on boat and for short rail-
| way trips. On this bicycle tour II is in
| tended to carry just as little baggage as
is possible. and to have it cent on from
| point 10 point 10 meet the party at the
| vsrious hotels and road-houses on the
route The tour includes stops al mos.
| ot the towns and places % interest of the
Loire. and the upper part OF France
| where the roads. under government
| supervision. are kept in good condition.
Caen. Mount 81. Michel, Caudebec.
| Chenonceaux. Blois. Fon,aineoleau. will
all be visited besides many other places
| and the $500 is 20 afford living az first
| class hotels in all Of them.
Another party intending 10 confne its
| cycling excursions mainly IN the United
| Kingdom. expects 20 be gone as long "a
| fifteen weeks. and TO expend only $3.50.
! These young women will eschew all reg
ular tourists routes. and intend to pat
ranize hotels and licensed lodging places
| only when driven 10 them. They 60
armed with a short lis. OF modes: farm
/ houses and retired hanlets where some
! waytarer known 20 them has found shel-
ter. or has heard thai shelter can be got.
| and they intend 20 extend this list oy
| experiments of their own.
There Is a freedom ami touch 90 Va ga
| bond.sm about this chance way OF travel
ing that gives zest 20 L." says a s,ujen,
| who was with such : party last sum-
| lner. I'VE travelled for weeks il Eng
| land and Scotland Nithou, knowing each
morning where we would lay our heads
! tha; night, and We had q grea, dea! OF
| .un and very little discomfort. We stay
! ed. when possible. with some farmers
- ulily. o. Z. in city. q, some simple
| lodging place OF az one % the temper
| eace hotels. and our room fo- eacl
nigh. seldom coss Us over shilling each.
The English working people are very
neat. Nearly all u them 1--we in nice.
| plain LILLE cottages tha; have a 5es;
room or spare chamber. snd are only too
| willing 10 le, IL. a, reasonable rates
We would 60 - the pos;office and IN
| aaire FOR the address @. some reliable
| woman who would De likely 10 accom-
caoda:e our party. There were four Of