Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-12-26
Across the Atlantic to Gibraltar.
By FaiH VIign ii TIE Gamma Ga) Haai.

tooQ On TINS Nefnl11 snip IS prep4red
IN German style The bin Ct fare is
printed both In German and in En-
glish. Both English and German are
good German. There is but little
need Tor a bin Of fare. The walter
brings everything that Is on it. One
takes his choice. The waiter appears
50 sorry when you decline anything
that after one or two meals you DO not
make him sorry. BUckwheat cakes
are served before the hreakfsst nof
after IL Wine Is not regularly on the
hill Of fare. There are six kinds Of
cheese for dinner. There are ten
courses al luncheon while at dinner-
who can Says The walters are poly
glotS fhey speak several languages
and are polite in all.
Next In Importance to eating cones
drinking. water is good for frogs,
said the SpaiSh manufacturer. "Yes,
Senior, for frogs and washing clothes >
was the response Of the Italian doctor.
Three-foarthS OF the passengers have
long, black bottles ON the table in
front Of them The bar is about the
size Of 4 large post ONCE drawer stood
on end bat 1t does more business than
a dozen saloons Yet nobody is drunk
or even unduly stimulated. ut is
the coostum OF the country what make
it wrong said the Spanish youth
NAL DE MER.
Through New York harbor we pass
ed on CLASSY sea. The pilot left US
with our letters for the homefolks.
The dropping into the night OF the
harbor lights, the disappearance Of
land and slipping from view, made us
serious, very serious for the while,
then the novelty Of the scene and the
surroundings gave gayety again. Late
at night the first rough sea struck us.
The next morning at breakfast some
faces were missing; at noon a few more
were invisible. That afternoon came
the storm, a great gale in fact, the
most serious, the captain said, he had
known in many a voyage. By noon on
Monday there were but three passen-
gen at luncheon. There was none
from Columbia. The Kodaker went
down first He went bravely to Sun
day services and then disappeared IN
til Tuesday morning; the Scribe soon
followed. There may be more dis
agreeable maladies than seasickness.
After writing that sentence the
Scribe takes II back. There may not
be. There can not be. You think
you win die and are sorry you do not.
You are sick-not III but sick. You
care for nothing but TO be let alone.
Bring up a chair said a friend who
leaned owe the ship rail. II won't;
| have brought up everything else, but
Idraw the line al chairs" That prince
OF story-tellers, Gardiner Lathrop, Of
Kansas City, tells Of a scene in a sea-
sick company on the English Chan
mel. Men and women lay about the
cabin.
The ships physician asked a fine
looking respectable woman who sat on
the sofa II she would have some lem
onade. She shook her head. Posi-
bly, your husband would have some, -
he suggested, pointing to a man whose
head had fallen Owe the woman's lap.
"He is not my husband-hic-I never
saw him before." The woman sum-
moned strength to make this reply.
She had been too sick even to care for
the mans presence and he had been
too sick to even move. Mr.. KodakeT
declares that there we're no women
around while he was sick but if there
had one fallen into his lap be could
not say-he might not have been able
to demonstrate.
To the literary widow with the large
eyes the ships doctor gaye-wonderful
to relate-to help her from seasick-
ness to con~yalescence, picked Holland
herringl Zach, F~raulein, ii is for all
when they recoyer from a-a-how dc
you say it?-from a spreeln There
was this consolation ia falling; that
every one did the same. We all were
in the same boat. The excellent
woman who had been across the Allan
tic tw~enty-four times and had not
forgotten it, and did not let US forget
il, either, was alike sick with the in
nocents who had never been on a
larger vessel than a Missouri river
ferry boat where one is never out Of
sight Of sannbars. We were all oldest
I inhabitants as far as seasiokness
went.
|, After it was all oyer-oYer the raj
land the brain had gotten the stom-
ach under control, the s~easiekneSs was
forgotten in the fine health which
followed. The dredging does the sys-
, TEN good; still the travellers will be
content to worry along without any
further experiences along this line.
!. STORM AT SEA.
, Grand among the sights allotted "a
man is that Of a storm at sea. The
Hohenzollern passengers we're per.
mitted such a spectacle on Sunday
afternoon and night. The waves
hammered at the ship sides, dashed
over the bow and drenehed the ven
tnresome who peeped from the cabin
door. The roar was sublime. The
voice Of many waters was combined in
a single sound. The wind and wave
rocked the vessel, swayed her from
her course and In a single night she
lost more than a hundred miles. The
. passengers scarce knew the danger
but rather felt It by that strange,
inexplicable prescience which brings
glimpses OF the future. The crew,
phlegmatic as all Teutons are, were
not a whit iiurried. Sturdy Capt. o,
Choppers, a Counterpart In courtesy
aud bulk OF Emmett Clinkscales,
walked as slowly and listened TO every
word OF a passenger with the same
attention as when the sea was glass
and the sky an uptumed blue vase.
The next day II wa a thing Of the
past, the ocean was as smooth as any
lake on summer afternoons. Like a
great dog, tanned and gentle, It lay al
the very feet Of It's master man.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES st SEA.
1t was as the storm gathered on the