The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-07-26

water. a good OLD country mill po-l4
could not be smoother; but instead
OF running north OF east towards the
England shores, our course is south
of east. There are run1ors Of drifting
iceburgs, and our captain is trying to
go so far south that he viii circum-
vent them. England is due. east from
Labrador; our present course, if
maintained, would land US in South
srn Spain. We are all consoling our
selves with the fact that our good
captain knows the course best for US,
and no one is fretting. What is true
I of the earthly leadership should be
accepted as true Of the heavenly, and
so the ancient man Of Uz said: "ae
knoweth the way that take
BY my watch, which has American
Eastern time, it is now a little after
midday; bat all the ships clocks say
! it is 1:l5. BY travelling towards the
east and towards the sun, we gain
about 20 minutes daily. At home on
| the land and standing on one place,
|eIing here on the sea, we are also go
| ING towards him and thus, in a way
we are helping the old fellow to bring
on his 12 M daily about 20 minutes
sooner than he could otherwise do.
| This is easily illustrated by simply
noting that two men walking towards
leach other would meet sooner than if
! one of them should stand still.
Since making my last notes I have
skipped a day. Yesterday I spent on
the upper deck playing games with
the ssboys,'' and here let it be known
that every man is a boy, and every
woman is a girl. In the second cabin
all social restrictions are Withdrawn,
and the passengers all know and con-
verse with each other. Over here
among the first cabin people. social
freedom and intercourse exists, but it
| is not absolute. The preachers al
fuse and run together, whether ac-
cuainted or not. Our one misfortune
I is that VS.. carry along with US a few
of the American nobility, where name
and social standing are fixed upon
the gold standard. Among those, the
man has his private servant, and the
woman her private maid. They have
their rooms en- suite. They eat in tnelr
own dining room, and drink water
land things from private bottles.
The only thing they have in common
with us is the air We breathe. They
i pay a thousand dollars each to cross
the ocean in seclusion from the null
| titude, and to sit and look into each
| others face as owls 90 in a cage. I
guess there is no use to have great
wealth if we cannot use it by buying
immunity from contact with those
who have not as much as we have
! And yet the most ludicrous accidents
ION our craft are those which occur
among the new-rich poor creatures
/ who have money, but neither sense
nor education nor any just idea of
what true refinement is.
I am writing now on July 4. The
ships clock says it is 1880 a. m.-rny
watch insists that it is s:25 a. m. We
have gained two hours without ever
having lived them. We are now
about 500 miles out in the open sea,
and it is mighty lonesome. The sight
of a far away sail or school Of por
poises pleases the eye, and make US
want to shake hands with somebody.
| Last night we had an entertainment
| in the dining room in the shape Of
songs by Kentucky girl and negro
dialect recitations by a. w. Bealer,
Baptist pastor at Thomasville. Ga. AS
"dialecition," I've never heard his
equal, and the great and fixed purpose
has been born within me to get him
to lecture to my home people next
| winter.
1t is now almost 12 NJ, Tuesday. \
fellow from the dining room-firs.
one and then another-keeps thrust
ing bowl Of that chicken soup un-
| der my nose, tempting me o par
take By the eyes and ears Of Mahomet
have decreed that will not fall be-
fore the temptation. I can do honest
| work at three daily meals, but am not
equal to five, when I know I'll go to
bed each night with an orange at my
mouth, an Australian apple in each
hand and plums and cherries scat
tered all over the floor Of my state
! room.