Woodruff County news., 1902-08-21
NO. 20.
A CHEAP TRIP ABROAD.
How It Can Be Done Without Spending
 a Great Deal of Money.


 q don't suppose I will ever go abroad" i" remarked the young lawyer to his friend, the life insurance agent, as the two happened to board the same car for the theater one eyen- ing.
 Why not?" asked the other, as he picked off from his coat a piece of dry mud, which horse in passing had flung from his heels.
 Haven't got the money" was the answer. q don't know whether I am going to succeed at my profession or not, and if l do happen to pull out a few thousands 1 will doubtless go and get married, like the rest of them, and then 1 will be anchored for all time"
 Haven't you got, say, $2oO to spare?" asked the insurance agent, as the car turned Fifty-ninth street and Sixth avenue.
 "Oh, l have that much; but that will only pay my passage one way" rejoined the other, with laugh.
 "Nonsense!" said the agent, as he doubled himself up to let a fat man squeeze through to an end seat. Why, look here. The year 1 left college l took $175-mark you, that was all had-and went to Europe with 1t, travelled almost the whole length of the Rhine, got smattering of the German language, took in the palaces and art galleries at Berlin, saw England few hours, and came back with enough new bone andhesh to last me whole year"
 'But you couldn't have done it in any style," said the other, according to the New York Journal.
 ''Stylew exclaimed the other. q didn't go over there for style. can get all of that l want, and more, too, in New York. went over to see and to learn. For example, my passage -steerage-from New York to Ant werp, cost just $25. The crowd wasn't so bad after 1 got used to it. It was summer, and l slept most of the time on deck. A mark tip to the steward, and 1 had hammock for the whole week we were out. And the food! We'll, it was pretty rugged, and, ah! how nice things did taste the first meal ashorel Old man, you don't appreciate good living until you have missed it little while.
 "Well, in Antwerp I saw the ca- thedral, the Reubens paintings, and took ride out to Waterloo. Was at Brussels couple of days. The two cities are only couple of hours apart. Then l went by rail, fourth class, to Cologne, for $1,50. Left Brussels in the morning and got to Cologne in the evening.
 "After that l did all my travelling by foot, and in thickly populated country you go plenty fast enough that way. Got knapsack and good pair of shoes and started out. l had a change of clothes in the knapsack, so that when l got to a town in the evening l could wash, put on clean collar and smile and look like an aristocrat.
 ''That is the way 1 hoofed it from Cologne as far south as Heidelberg. then cross lots to Nuremberg, then north to Berlin. It cost me about one dollar day. l made it by easy stages Sometimes 1 walked ten miles, sometimes 30. From Berlin, after week seeing the sights, Iwent by fourth class train to Rotterdam: cost me four dollars; took day and an evening; put up night at what they call sgasthauser.' Bed and breakfast, 25 cents-one mark-and l could not complain of them, either. l had enough money over to stop in London two days and to come back in the cabin"
 Sounds feasible" remarked the lawyer, as the two got off the car. Maybe I'll try it."