Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-13

conversed with personally. while other.
| he has only seen and has been in thei
presence at great events.
You must have gained quite knowl
edge of the languages was the sugges
ton.
Not SO great one would suppose
he responded modestly. OF course | have
picked up smattering of all of them
country to country. But to tell you ths
truth l know so little of the languages
of some of the countries that when | am
in the best of society, 1 feel somewhat
embarrassed. | understand the Norwe-
gian language best of all outside the
English. However. there are two lam
guages that will carry one about the
world with ease, and they are the Eng
fish and the French. | have tourist
command of the French, so manage 10
move about with ease. The German lam
Suage is getting to be more in use than
ever especially in the far east"
What countries have you visited?"
Il have been about the world in nearly
all its parts in the past Is years, with the
exception perhaps of Portugal, where l
have never been, but if | should continue
my travels for the next Is years | should
doubtless find countries enough to visit
What is your favorite country?'
Next to America there Is no country
on earth that is equal to Norway. / am
an ardent lover of nature and naturally ]
love and fairly worship the scenery of the
country. There are % rivers, that to m,
contain the beauty of the Kennebec. the
1st, Of E.,
magniiicence of the Hudson. The peu,..
there in my several visits in the years
gone by, have grown to be my friends
and l now have some of the warmest
friends in Norway of the whole world. ]
read "Thelma" before going to that coun-
try and it impressed me. When there.
passed through in my minds eye an ex
perence similar and thus the countr,
was made all the dearer to me. | visited
the country last May arriving there abou
the time of the outbreak of the Spanish
American war. On my return 1 was
homesick for the beauty of Norway
What countries do. you now long &c
visit. besides Southern SPAIN
Il wish and intend to make the triI
across Siberia when the railway is com
pleted. At present the way offers toe
many hardships Another country where
l wish to visit is the center of Africa.
shall endeavor to go through that coun-
try when the railway is completed. ]
shall get up a lecture on the Soudan. tn.
Transvaal and, in fact, the whole trip.
That also offers too many hardshps to
me without the railway
Prof. Robertson explained that he had
IN, III I-,,;t s.,
six years, during which time he has Wis
tied all but two or three of the extreme
Western states. He has eight illustrate,
lectures having about 1900 lantern slide.
which he says cost him all the way from
10 cents up to several dollars. During thu
six years ne has given 1913 lectures. Mr.
Hale, his assistant, has been with hin
throughout the entire time. He had u
engagements booked for the Manila lee,
ture when he returned to this country or
December 8, of last year, and since thai
time he has delivered So of them. He has
given but few of his other lectures in the
meantime. In Cincinnati on the 18th da!
| of January. he was assailed by several OF
the audience of nearly 10000 people. OF
account of his allusion to the Catholic
| religion that exists in Manila. He never
| as a rule enters into anything of the kind
but his idea of the Catholic belief in it,
| true nature being so different from tina;
of Manila he says he cannot help blu
| calling the attention of the people and
the Catholic world to the abuse of tho
religion in that country. He was never
before assailed and he did not pay any
attention to it. The next day columns OF
/ I. tod " tbp citV DanPrS
unfolding him and columns were devoted
| to the lecture. He was assailed later Dy
a Catholic paper there, but the other pa
pers resented the assailment and uphcl'
him In consequence Murat Halstead an6
other great editors have engaged Mr.
Robertson to give the lecture again in tina
city, April g. in Music hall.
He has twice been in railroad accidents
and twice has been on steamers tina
have been wrecked, yet he thinks he ha'
been very fortunate and loves to travel a
well as ever.
~ suppose your literary efforts brini
their reward the reporter inquired.
81 have large prices from the secuia
papers for my articles on the studles
the religions and my magazine article
bring me a good price when feel III
clined to write them. But to tell you III
trutb. though love to talk. do not car
for writing and my mind is not at all III
erarv in the way of paying great atten
tim to nv writing. l have at home o!
I fore of snace for articles. but canno
O accom-. them any more than l could az
| cent the offer of passing the month on
e Manila lecture tour in England. There
f more financial benefits from my presef
i occupation. -,
I u made good income at the frst OF m
g travels by writing for syndica.e
s eastern papers, and for le" ca...e
e when l was in Europe, yet l never i"'
= cied the work wholly
: The professor thinks that New Enslaf
is the hest part of the United States.
# fact. he says the section Of the Unit, !,
e States that he thinks really enjoys .e
lie lures is bounded on the west oy 0un'
lie and on the south by Philadeipnia'