The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-14

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Thursday, February Is.
While our ship lay IN the harbor at
Port Said yesterday evening q violent
storm Of wind and rain came up. but
We went to sea at 8 O'Clock. in spite
OF It, and tossed about until morning,
Wnen we reached Alexandra.
About the first thing we saw on en-
tering the harbor at Alexandra was
the big ship Republic on which we
embarked at once for Naples. We
round our trunks in our rooms,
LnaRlks TO the faithfulness Of Thos.
Cook & Son. The Republic Is a
very big ship, but instead OF describ-
ing II. shall describe the Baltic" a
Iafge vessel on which I intend to cross
the Atlantic
It is said there are only two things
70 see IN Alexandria: the catacombs,
ana Pompey's pillar. -Four years ago,
an Alexandria man was digging a Gel
lar, and ran into a cave. Investigation
revealed an immense subterranean
puiyIng place as old as the Christian
CIVILIZATION. Visitors now 20 down into
these caves, which have been cleaned
out, and fitted with electric lights.
Fompeys pillar is an immense solitary
colufnn, standing on hill. It is nearly
d hundred feet high, and one piece Of
stone in It must be SO feet long, and
surrounded with a Corinthtan cap.
Alexandria is clean, modern city
with 100000 people, and located at one
OF the mouths of the Nile.
Nearly every child has recited At
school the piece beginning THE boy stood
on the burning deck" The incident On
which the poem is located happened
within sight of Alexandria In the time
OF NanOAaHn The sesl,
were engaged in a naval battle and
the commander of one of the ships went
DeloW, and told his son to remain at
certain place until his return The com
mander was soon killed by q shell, but
the boy did not know it, and remained
at his post on the burning ship, when e
all but him had fed, until he was burn
cd up. The poem was written to teach
children the Importance Of obeying or
ders; I refer to it here for the same
purpose.
Nearly all the passengers on the
Republic" are Americans, returning
from Egypt. The ship sails between
Alexandria and New York. during the
winter, calling at Naples. We will leave
the ship at Naples, and make a hurried
trip through Italy, Switzerland, France
and England. by rail, stopping at Rome.
Paris and London, and sailing from
Liverpool for home on the 2sth. BY
this arrangement, we Will arrive in New
York only three days behind the RE
public" as the shortest possible voyage
on the Atlantic is between Liverpool
and New York.
It is thousand miles from Alex
andr1a to Naples. We left Alexandria
at $3.50 p m. Con Thursday and will
arrive at Naples at 10 a. m. on Sunday
next. On the way we win pass the
Islands of the Aegean sea. so dear to the
hearts OF art students. Also the island
OF Crete, where Thesus killed the Mino-
taur. Also. Sicily, where is located Mt
insurance calendars. Also, the shores
of Greece, where Ulysses and his ship
were turned into stone. We will also
pass through the Straits Of Messina,
where are located Scylla and Charyb-
dis; when q classical scholar wants to
say that a man is between the devil
and the deep sea, he says he is be-
tween Scylla and Charybdis; two dan
gerous rocks in the sea, one on the
shores of Sicily, and the other on the
shores of Italy The old story was that
if mariner missed Scylla, he was GER
tain to strike Charybdis. but I do not
imagine that the big Republic will
pay much attention to them.
In India and Ceylon. every traveller
met was going around the world, but
on the Republic" we are the only pas
sengers who have made the trip. But
I hope we are modest: anyway, we try
to be, and talk about It as little as pos
sible. The passengers are cautious
about talking to US Of Egypt; we have
not only been there but to Palestine.
and India, and Ceylon, and China, and
Japan, and the Straits Settlements and
the Red sea, and the Malay Peninsula.
I promise to be equally modest when
return home; I have RESOLVED not to
become a nuisance by talking too much.
In the dining room of the s'Repub-
lie" we sit with Mrs. Martin and her
two daughters, OF Reno, Nevada. with
whom we Travelled to Palestine, and
from Palestine. The only other person
at the table is g young lady from New
York, who also accompanied US
through Palestine. Two Catholic priests
from Massachusetts, also made the trip
with US through Palestine and they
are passengers on the Republic"
They were fellow passengers on the
terrible trip through the surf at Jaffa, t
and we often get together. and express
than fulness that we are alive to tell
the story.
Everywhere in Palestine [ heard that /
the natives are anxious to shake off /
the Turkish yoke, and make some sort /
OF an alliance with America or Eng
and (And. may say that |