The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-16

frstclass. advertised as low as s625.
This is by the very shortest route; it
does not include the trip to India and
many other places of great interest
are cut out. 1t should also be remem-
bered that at Hong Kong and many
other places of little or no interest, you
viii be compelled to wait from five
days to two weeks for connecting
steamer, and during these long waits
you must pay extravagant hotel bills,
and extravagant bills of every other
kind. Going around the world Is a
more serious and expensive proposition
than people imagine. It is like build
ing a house; always double your esti-
mates as to cost and time. And the
sidetrips you will want to take viii
cost more than the main trip.
As many steamships pass my win
dow at the Gale Face hotel as passen-
ger trains pass the Fifth street cross
ing in Atchison. rarely look out at
the ocean without seeing a ship COM
ing in or going out. But if you are
travelling, these ships do not go your
way. There are plenty Of cars on
metropolitan street railway, but, in or
der to reach your destination, you are
compelled to wait for a green car.
Last night, during dinner at the hO-
tel, band of tWenty-siX men played
in the court. In this court there are
cOcoanut tress and under the
the ground. were colored electric
lights. Colored electric lights were
also scattered among the big foliage
plants and palms. It was an entirely
the ocean and the moon Need I add
that the band played "Under the Bam-
bee Tree %
The drunkard was present, and went
away, and then came back again. His
I,- .f.,a-
I can't understand what he is home
sick about; the keeper says he cares
for no one, and no one cares for him.
The drunkard has always been a sOli-
tary man: nothing ever interested him
except whisky.
In the streets of Colombo. yesterday.
7 saw a novel procession: Il thousand
native servants carrying New Y eat
presents for their masters. The pres
ents were in baskets. which the ser
wants carried on their heads. About
twenty-five of the servants led goats,
which they intend giving their mas
ters. This procession is an annual
custom here. The servants make much
of It. as in return for the baskets of
fruit they give their masters, they ex-
pect very substantial favors.
Mr. Munson and Mr.. Milligan. the
fine old gentlemen and fast friends
from New 7 Ork, WnOn i ADMIRED on
the Siberia came in a. few days ago,
on a German steamer. They viii re-
main here a week. but I Will meet
them again somewhere on the road; I
met them in Manila. and they turned
up here, very unexpectedly.
I have come to have good deal of
sympathy with the drunkard: I think
long for home as much as he longs
for intoxfcants. Among the many
drinks he is familiar with there are
several that afford him comfort. Like
wise. among the people I know at home,
there are many who please me. and at
ford me contentment; there are many
places at home I like to visit
7 have long had a notion that should
meet MohammsG I would find
him ashamed of his religion and Of his
prophet: both seem so false and ridic-
ulous to me But I was never more mis-
taken: the Mohammedan is about the
best satisfied man in the Orient. He is
as wen satisfied with himself as a Chi