The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-03
H0WE'S TRAVELS.
Editor Of Globe Continues Ac-
count Of Trip.
Five Days Out and No Vessel
Sighted.
THEY LOSE A DAY.
Where Globe TrOtters Always
Hiss 81 Hours.
Jokes on Kansas Cracked in the
Pacific.

The weather has been extremely
pleasant today, but the pitch and roll
are very noticeable. They say that
every. seventh pitch is a heavy one. I
have kept count, and there is something
IN 1t. The ship will travel along quiet
" for a time, when suddenly there. will
be an. enormous pitch and roll They
also say that every seventh year, the
ocean is different" the tides are lower
or higher, or storms are more numer-
Gus or scarcer.
A wreck on the Pacific would be
serious matter. This is our fifth day
out, and we have not sen a single
vessel of any kind. On the Atlantic
siipS are as numerous as wagons on
a main Travelled road, and shipwrecked
passengers would have some show, but
Il We. should be compelled to take to
the boats. 1 do not know what would
become Of US.
It is part of the deck gossin TODAY
that an opium den is being operated
IN the Chinese quarter. and that a cab
IN passenger went down there last
night, and hit the pipe" after win
hAlg twenty dollars at one of the
gambling games. They also say the
chinese gamblers travel both ways on
this line, to amuse the Chinese passen-
gers. All of the Chinese on board have
-1ASAA SSItlllCdleSs ana may return If
they choose. All of them viii return
except the very old men. The ships
oHneerS say about as many travel east
as travel west, and that the number is
unusually large now, on account of the
Chlnese New Year, which the Chinese
IN America take pride in celebrating at
home.
Another piece of deck gossip is that
the beautiful hair worn by the actress,
is false. 1t looks pretty good. It fool
ed me; 1 shall investigate, and may
BUY some. / wonder where she bought
i? OF course the women say
the woman's beautiful complexion is
due to enamel They call her the
tSoubrette,' but she is no soubrette,
should say she is a leading woman in
heavy lines. Speaking of actors Frank
T.. P1xiey, who writes comic opera
ibrettas, is on board and sits at our
table. I have forsotten all he has writ
ten, but he has written king DoDO"
and other successful ones. He may be
going to Japan to study local color
for another opera.
= The two fine looking old gentlemen
who are on board started on a tour of
the world last December, travelling
very7 leisurefy. At YokoIarlias they
heard of some compiled ton in their
business affairs. so they returned to
New York. This being straightened
out they are now going back to COM
templated- A good many of the pas
sengers are going around the world.
was looking at the journey I have
undertaken, and find that I will be
compelled to travel twenty-three
thousand miles. I am almost sorry I
did not start out to spend my yaca-
ton in Honolulu. instead of travelling
rapidly. cannot imagine az trip
promising more recreation and pleas
ure than one to Honolulu. The Pa
cific is always pleasanter than the At
lantic, and from what I hear, HOMO
lulu must be delightful Mark Twain
SAYS in one of his books that he re-
members Honolulu and the Hawaiian
islands with more pleasure than any
other place he ever visited.
/ heard a piece of Atchison gossip
in the smoking room last night. / met
a man who knows a formerly of Atch-
ison man, and he told me a story that
7 am certain has never reached Atch-
ison. But I have no intention of tell
ing it; I only mentioned the matter be-
cause I thought it queer that [
should hear an AtchisOn story in the
Pacific ocean, twelve hundred miles
west of San Francisco. Speaking Of
Kansas, Mattel told an EngIishman to-
day that she was from Kansas, and he
asked if Kansas were not near Rhode
Island The people out here don't
Joke" me about Kansas; they don't
know about it. I was talking today
with a japanese passenger. and when
I told him I was from Kansas. he
looked as blank as I did when he said
he was from Fijian- And Atchison:
YOU have no idea how completely
Atchison is lost out here.
Smoking room joke A passenger
wandered in a while ago and said be
never knew until last night that a
man could get drunk on water, but
that he had accomplished it. You
may need a chart, but it seemed easy
to me.
A lady told me today that she
shaves her husband every morning.
He wouldn't shave regularly. and
went around with a stubby beard. so
she bought a razor and goes after
him every morning. Speaking of bar
Der shops, there is an old gentleman
on board who has his hair cut every
morning. And then he returns to his
room and shaYes himself. And the
popularity of the story is that the old
gentleman has almost no hair; just a
gray fringe.
This is an American ship. and we are
all very proud of it, for It is a fine one.
and exeellently managed. It was built
at Newport News. Virginia There are
one of them informs me that the fare in
the siberia" and the mana cement
generally. are the best he has ever en-
countered. This is a good deal, from
an Englishman, since Englishmen are
great ship builders, and operate famous
lines of ships on every sea. The Eng
Iish cannot understand the American
tariff: they say American goods of ev-
cry kind are cheaper in England than
in America. The English are not the
only people who cannot understand the
American tariff: the Americans do not.
Four days west of Honolulu we will
lose a day. Tuesday night we viii go
to bed as usual and when we awaken
at the usual time it viii be Thursday
morning; we Will have dropped Wed
nesday entirely. Get the children in the
high school to explain this to you: I
can't. The captain tried to get If