The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-20
BURIED AT SEA.
Prairie Grass Editor an Ocean
Funeral Spectator.
Ship Stopped for a Moment
While the Bell TOlled.
PURSE FOR THE WIDOW
Has First Sight Of India at the
Mouth of Ganges.
Has Same COcOanUt Trees and
Rice Fields as CeylOn.
PURSE FOR THE WIDOW

Saturday January 8.
The weather has become finer, and
the games on deck are all going; also,
both the pianos. The "SOman has
piano on deck, in addition to one in
the music room. The piano on deck
q cased in such a way as to protect II
from the weather. and It is used when
there IS dancing. The smoking room
is the finest apartment in the ship, and
the women LOAF ia there with the men
q good deal, playing cards and gossip
Ing. A woman travelling is never sat
isf1ed unless she has at least three ad-
nirers around her every time she goes
on deck. on the "SOman,' If she
hasn't that number, she goes into the
smoking room. There Is, however,
one exception to this rule: an elderly
woman who Is said to be diamond
crazy. She admires nothing but dia-
monds. and travels only to look at dia-
monds.
How undressing people are! There
are seventy or eighty passengers on the
''SOmah,' and not an interesting one in
the lot And how hard we ali try TO
be interesting, and how soon we dis
cover we are making a failure of 1t!
Talk to a stranger, and in a few sec
onds he will show disposition 10 in
terest you, you having failed to inter
est him. I have been in a. good many
different places, and found few inter-
esting people. The most interesting
people 1 have ever known I have
known in my own community. The
few great people L have met never
equal their regulations. How rare
some things are: Genius, for example.
Genuine affection, such as the young
Australian shows for his mother, is
also very rare. Look around you:
how many cases of genuine affection
are you familiar with2 How many
people are you deeply fond off If you
are not fond of many, possibly it is not
your fault; possibly the people you
know best, offend you without know
ing it.
have no hesitancy in saying that
the brightest and best people have
ever known are the neighbOrs and
friends I have known so many years.
do not take kindly to strangers; I have
not made a new friend in several
years. My friends are old friends. And
while I do not take" to strangers,
strangers do not take" to me; on
every ship on which I embark, think
I am the least popular man in the
bunch, and the least known
I have become pretty well acquaint-
ed with Mr.. Monatt, by reason of the
fact that ] have rOomed with him four
weeks. The other day I was telling
him about Potato Hill and Smiths
Quarterly. He like the idea Of Smiths
Quarterly, and offered me two shilltngs
LDE a year s HQDGEAAALAO4 WHICH i lE-
clined: the subscription books are not
open.
Sunday January z
Still at sea, between Ceylon and Cal
Cutta. BY the way, CeylOn is mention
ed in the hymn book. In the hymn
beginning From Greenland's icy
mountains. from midas coral strand,
those lines occur: What though the
spicy breezes blow soft o. er CeylOn' s
fe1a TrneDnrt nlPG and
only man is vile" The captain con-
Quoted services in the dining room
this morning, and / attended The
tail fat lady who smokes cigarettes ON
deck, sat in front of the captain, ana
seemed very familiar with the services;
when the others sat down, she knelt
but she was so tall that kneeling, sh e
seemed to be sitting. The services
lasted forty-five minutes, ending with
taking up a collection, which went to
the Seaman's Orphanage at Liverpool.
I contributed a rupee The captain is
q short. fat man, and the punka, which
was going all the time, brushed his
hair both ways. The first hymn IN the
book I am familiar with. begins: 60,
for a thousand tongues to sing my
great Redeemer's praise" but the
hymn book we used this morning was
strange to me. One hymn we sang
was very appropriate: Almighty Faith
er hear our CRY, as over the trackless
deep we roam; be thou our haven al
ways nigh, on homeless waters thou
our home"
We heard this morning Of the death
OF the Quartermaster who suffered a
gunstroke at Colombo, and he is to be
buried at sea. He left his home in Eng
land stout and we'll. it will be q shock
to his people to hear that he died at
sea, and was thrown overheard It's a
creepy sort of thing to think about.
The tail fat lady who has attracted