The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-08-30
A TRIP TO THE FAR AWAY PHILIPPINES.
A Lafayette County School Teachers Notes on his
Voyage to the Orient.
ICY NEW YORK, SUNNY SPAIN, AND TROPlC EGYPT.
Malta, Where St. Paul was Shipwrecked, and Port Said,
the Wickedest of Cities.

Spaniard with his dark face and red
sash, the MoOrs with their long robes
and white turbans, and a great num-
Der Of British soldiers and sailors
in their various uniforms, their
flaming red coats and white helmets,
or the sailor blue, or, more attractive
and picturesque than any-the High
land kilts-together form a group
long to be remembered. In front Of
US rises the town, and above the town
the rock. Procuring a guide we
wandered through the gardens OF
flowers, groves Of oranges and palms,
hardly realizing that two weeks before
we were ~shivering with cold in a
New York snow storm. We start
toward the rock, winding through
the barrow, steep streets toward the
entrance. Suddenly there is a con-
fused jingle of bells and a herd Of
goats come around the corner almost
running over us. Here comes the
driver to deliver the milk in this
natural manner, saving the use Of
pals or the danger Of getting the
milk watered. Here everybody walks
10 the middle OF the street, as the
sidewalks are not wide enough to
accommodate two persons together.
When we reach the entrance to the
passage leading to the great gate
barring the way into the passages we
are asked to register at the guard
house and all write our names in the
great book kept there. Then we
start through the massive gate and
up the winding passages. Every few
yards there r port holes and great
cannon sticking out Of the face OF the
Cliff. Looking out one Of these we
see the strait, the neck OF land con-
Meeting Gibraltar and Spain, called
the neutral ground" and beyond
the Spanish village Of Lemia, Spain,
and the great bull ring at the edge Of
the town. We think we have gone
up a very great distance when we get
up as far as visitors are allowed, but
learn we are only about one-third Of
the way to the top. We think that
we have ee the strong fort Of the
English, but learn that we have seen
but the Old guns and minor points Of
defense. Going down we start across
the neutral ground toward Spain
We look back and notice the peculiar
shape Of some Of the rocks near the
top, and a powerful marine glass
shows these crooks" to be huge
cannon painted grey. This is the
finest view of the rock and the one
usually shown in pictures.
Going through the Spanish village
we visit the bull ring. Here is a ring
surrounded by an am"phitheater
capable Of sSating fifteen thousand
people, and we are told that during
the ''season" the seats are usually all
taken. Coming back we pass the line
Of Spanish seutries. Here is one
sitting down with his hands In his
pocket while he smokes a cigarette.
His rife is leaning up against tie
gate. Going across the strip Of
neutral ground we reach the English
sentry line. The young soldier walk
ing this post steps out with a military
air and when he reaches the end of
his post he executes an ''a0out race"
and walks back frowning fercely over
the little strap that holds his "pill
box cap 10 place. Behold the DIFF
ference between the "machine'
soldier Of England, ever on the alert,
and the careless, INDECENT, easy-going
soldier Of Spain. Thus the two
natiops watch each other and pace
the worn paths made by the soldiers
for the last two hundred years.
Soon we were on shipboard and on
our way to Malta. A little after
dark We steamed out Il the bay,
leaving the twinkling lights Of tn
towq, and rounding the point we're in
darkness save for the great light OF
the light house, which sank into the
sea hours afterward. On Thursday,
March 10, after three and a half days
from Gibraltar, we sighted the island
of Coco, one OF the Maltese group,