The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-01
are the only passengers who have been

are the only passengers who have been
to Manila.
My roommate is a Mr.. Moffatt, an
Englishman, and he is a pretty good
fellow. I never knew anyone quite so
anxious to secure all the rights OF a
traveller, but he is very polite 10 me.
He has the dining room walters, and
the state room stewards standing on
their heads half the time. The pepper
doesn't suit him and every little while
he sends for the head man, to straight
en- things out His luggage is the run
NEST looking lot and he IS evidently
an old traveller: his luggage is covered
with all sorts of curious labels may
not accumulate anything else on TINS
trip. but I am accommodating lot or
labels on my trunk and on my suit case
They are pasted on everywhere, ana as
these labels are highly priced by people
at home, shall probably, on my re
turn offer my trunk and Valise for sale
to the highest bidder, and get new ones,
as the sight of these foreign labels make
me nervous. I went down to my room
awhile ago. and was amused at Slghl
of NV trunk which was covered with
hotel labels from Japan, emma the
PhiliDpines etc, in addition TO the
I labels of three steamship companies.
( The trunk was showed under my DuHkt
and on the end sticking out the mod
est initials "E. W. H appeared from
the mass of foreign labels. me Irullk
! looked ashamed of itself: it seemed as
much out of place as farm mule at
tached to a buggy
AID. m. we got away; ship never
sails on time. A few miles oulslu0 ms
/ aarbOr. we ran across the 'Sl0eIla,
en- route home 1t salleu me NO us
of the day before, and had been 70
Portuguese town up the coast a1ter d
CONSIGNMENT of opium which was load
ed at sea, from heavily armed junks,
as q protection from ChlneSe pirates.
/ CaDtain Smiths body is being taken TO
san Francisco, on the Siberia, the
first o.. GER in command. 1t Will be a
/ lonesome Journey. About twenty pas
sengers embarked at Hong Kong for
the trip to America.
The "Simla" is an English ship. and
most of the passengers are English. 1
am becoming so accustomed to the Eng
/ fish that, on my return home, 1 Will
! spend a good deal of time with Fred
/ Csiddings-
The Englishman is very smart and
capable, and he knows it; possibly this
/ is his greatest fault. Talk about the
j assertive Americans; have never
known an American who is the equal
/ in this respect. of the average English
man. He is always polite but he wants
] all that is coming to him. and viii get
it. No wonder the caricature of an
/ Englishman is met with so frequently
I on the stage, for travellers never forget
/ the Engliskman. But the stage Eng
] lishman is not at all like the real
I thing When you first meet an Eng
/ lishman, you don't like him, but be-
! fore he leaves you, you discover that
/ he is a pretty good fellow. He is no
/ joke, as is the stage Englishman, for
he viii hold uD his end in anything
/ from an argument to a fight and is
/ always polite. But he wants to know
and viii find out. And when an Eng
Hshman puts on his dinner coat and
+ air of being the Whole Thing that is
irresistible In this they remind me of
a Chicago man who takes off his hat
i in a hotel elevator, " hen there are la
dies present, under such circumstances
the Chicago man seems to say: Mote
/ what a perfect gentleman I ami"
Mr.. MOffatt. my roommate. not only
/ looked after himself in the dining room
but secured me a seat as good al his
own; / sit at the first officers table in
an end seat. The first officer is very
intelligent and agreeable and we pick
/ up the gossip of the voyage from first
/ hands; we viii stoD at Singapore "A
| hours. to coal; at Panang. six hours
! etc. In travelling out here you pick up
[ your information as YOU go along; by
/ the time you reach place, you know
/ a good deal about it, In india you
/ must employ personal servant to
/ travel with you, and look after you at
railway stations and hotels. Imagine
me with a mani" And a brown man
decided to name him Kansas
Ny daughter is in a room with q
very pleasant young girl from Canada,
and they seem to get along we'll. The
women always do better on ships than
the men. the steWardSss has alrea DIV
inquired what the Atchison girl will
have in her room for early brea kfast
as regular breakfast is not served un-
til nine o'clock. Think of brea kfast
at nine o'clock, and then remem Der
that at home I am always at work by
seven o'clock.
When I desire to be shaved on the
eSimla," I ring a bell. and brown
citizen of India. appears and shaves
me once over, in my room. I then
finish the process myself; that Is
shave as close as / please, put on face
lotions, powder, perfumery, etc. This
is another entirely new idea. Mr.. Moi
fatt came near meeting his match at
Hong Kong It seems that he has an
appetite for milk-a very cOmmenda-
bic one, / should say-so he went to
a dairy, and ordered a dozen bottles
of milk. and two bottles of cream He
I ordered the milk and cream steriIized
twice. The milk and cream came on
/ board. with a horribly big bill. and Mr..
Agoffatt and the milk man had a great
row. Finally i saw Mr.. Moffatt give
the milk man $40 in gold. but it de
velOped after sailing, that the milk
man had taken the twelve bottles of
milk away with him, leaving only the
two pint bottles OF cream. Mr.. Moi
fatt was in a beautiful rage but
/ could do nothing, although he says
e has friends a Hone nUp~ fFaa