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

the. ruler who fails heir to the Arabs
VIII never cease Tegretting IT'D The
lack Of harbor at Jaffa Is q standing
disgrace to the country. I am thinking
Of suing the Turkish government for
scattering my nerves: they were shat
tered by holding women while they
SareW up IF you contemp plate visiting
Paiest1ne, remember that you viii have
terrible time at Jafra-
I can't help laughing at my hoodoo.
Usually my hoodoo downs me, and sits
on me, and jumps up and down, and re-
jofces in a loud voice, but I have just
scored q victory over 1t for the first
time N my life, and naturally, I am
somewhat proud of the feat. As soon
as 1 started for Palestine my hocdoo
began 70 declare that should miss the
connection at Alexandria and thus lose
a week; the wind began to blow and
now, but at Jaffa, I struck a fairly
favorable day. and managed to get
ashore. All the time [ was in Paies-
Ilne, the wind continued to blow and
noWl; 1 could hear my hoodoo saying
N the roaring wind: I've got you;
I'll keep you in this dreary country a
month maybe six months When I
returned to Jaffa, to embark for Alex
ardr1a, the waves ran 50 high that no
one thought of going to the ship; it
looked as though my hoodoo had tri-
French ship happened in, and by the
merest chance, I managed to get
aboard. This was a faster ship than
the one had intended going on, and
l made the connection at Alexandria
with only q few hours to spare. And
1 nave been treated with great congid-
Grafton on the Republic" In my
room there was squeak that nearly
set me crazy after the shattering my
nerves received in assisting easick
women at Jaffa. I spoke TO the stew
ard about the squeak, and he gave me
a much better room, all to myself. So
/ Ielt that for once I have triumphed
over m yhoodoo- don't know what
it will do to me from now on, but I am
certainly on top at this writing.
Friday, February 1s.
At sea, on the Mediterranean. In the
big ship Republic" Same old story.
except that the ship is a little better
and larger than any of the others
The weather is a little boisterous, but
the ship is so large that we do not
mind It. If you must go to sea. go on
big vessel And insist on a room
near the center.
The men in the smoking room talk
about Egypt, and dragomen, and
ruins and high prices; they are
= solL ne OF tne tourists who amused me
IN cairo. l heard one man grumbling
because he was charged SIS at the
Savoy in Cairo for q chicken The
savoy IS the hotel where kings. and
aukes, and princes. stop. The story
Is probably an exaggeration; I doubt
II the man paid IS for a chicken
travellers are always unreliable All
my life / have heard great tales Of
the magtcians of India One story
@as 70 the erect that a real Indian
magician would appear in the street.
Wlehout apparatus. and cause an
enormous tree to grow out of the
ground. A boy would climb the trae
ana snake down oranges, and apples
9tlo plneappIes. Everywhere in In
ola l looked for these wonderful ma
glclans- They do not exist. excan4
IN the tales of travellers. saw
tree trick performed a dozen +Iroas.
nave seen hundreds of better tricks
performed at the theater in Atcbs
son Instead of making a tree go
the Indlan fakire produces a nIanf
about a foot high from under
olahket. It Is a very clumsy perform
anee- The best magician 7 nave So,
on the trip was an Arab Zgbo 99e.i
formed one day on the deck of ~
snip at Port Said, and he was MT a
cieVer as the travelling magicfans who
may De seen at any American theater
NV NV People love to fool themselves
TO" they love to repeat a lie know
ing It to be lie, enlarge an r. go
accept It as the TRUTH
The trip around the world >, q r,s~.
SIG 30 "a 70 me today. must have greatly
enlarged your views It has. ~
nave no more ability than W,bay,
started; am the same old n1,5e
always was pug
You have no idea of the "shonnino,,
vsoille9 travellers do. A woman TODAY
showed me a lot of beads she had mr.,
chased in Egypt, with a. certi7ca+e - ~
a collector that they came from aro,,1,-5
me necks Of mumnies buried f7ffeen
lautlaIeo years ago She gave me a
~ tflIls Tor the Atehison museum. one /
OF our travelling acqLaintancas fc No
garet Martin, twelve years nd re 1 5'lsai-
Nevada heard Ter comDlafnfT,eC ~ /
3ener DAY that she mad been able ia ana /
only seventy different postal csrds ~
Egypt These cards she sends 70 rer /
u !. I Isll az nome, habit travellers have.
AAteF my return to Atc1eison T avreot /
to receive picture card from Alofevg
where the girl is going. with this g,Tif
zen on the bottom: with love No
saret This young lady asked her
= ilotnsr lor permission to sit beside me
II taoie; she is rather friendly because
II an incident at Jaffa After t7,e go
1ble voyage through the surf. she vas
very seasick on reaching the deck 81
ne ship but her legs We're so short she
sooidn I reach the rail. So I lifted her
ID, and heId her; her own mother TO-
ng deserted her-1Trs. Merlin was rrSr,7
busy about ten feet away Margaret
lasnt forgotten this kindness. and Is
disposed to be my friend
One woman I met on the trip made
ipecialty of buying wooden elephants.
when left her at Calcutta, she had
wenty-two, and was industriolsIv
Oolxing Cor more '-74S
/ have bought nothing during nv trim
kept one pipe, made OF o1ivewood. and
bought that for myself. On nv re-
urn, 7 shall not give my friends nras-
nts; shall give them good advice. in
tead, and this advice will be: stay at
lome."
February II.
From noon yesterday until noon to-
lay, the ship made $50 miles. Weather
qually. and sea smooth.