The Mena weekly star., 1907-01-10
NO pLAcELIKE THESE UNITED STATES
An interesting Letter Giving a Few Features of a Trip to Europe.

during tuG IuliStIudS uolludy there was one which gave u: much pleasure and 10 little infor nation from very dear frient who has just returned from a triI across the big waters n the good ship .Amerika," and we have decided to divide this pleasure ou' among our readers by quoting from the letter as follows:
 "New York, Dec. 24. '06, My Dear Mir. St. John:-
 ssI'm back again to the most delightful country Tn the world There is no place like it, nor will there be. The more cue sees oi other places the more one can possibly appreciate the pleasure and joy of living iu these United States.
 II got off the steamer at Plym- outh and from there went out to sec the ruins at Cornwall for pleasure, and particularly to see one party on business. The old Dolcoath mine still runs as 1t has run for several hundred years and
  is now doing handsomely. Side by side run a series of California stamps and an old battery oi stamps built several hundred years ago. Women and girls work here at one shilling per day. la Belgium the women work in wheeling coal, etc. There they fill the wheclbarrows with slack coal from the barges and wheel ii to the furnaces at 1 franc 50 centimes or 30c per day. But the Belgian smelters cannot compete with the Kansas smelters at all, even with their low rate of wages. I was delighted with Hamburg and its commercial activity. It resembles New York more closely than any other European city.
 But for perfection of travel one wants to try the steamer. l went on the "Amerika. It is not so very fast but is agreat big roomy boat with lots of comfort It is so big that they must have elevators for the passengers as there are six floors of first cabin rooms. The restaurant a la carte on the upper deck is like Del mouico, being run by the famous Ritz of Paris. One did not have to eat at the regular ta ble. There is gymnasium on board with every appliance open to the first cabin. Then there is two story smoking room. Last but not least, that which will interest you most is the daily newspaper with all the latest news. Not one minute of our trip were we out of communication with shore. We had Cape Cod news for 200c miles out of New York, aud then Poldhu, Cornwall, 1000 miles away. Then we were always talking to passing steamers that we couldn't see. It seems wonder ful. Of course the newspa per didn't publish all the news we had, but all the ship to ship gossip was posted in the Mar conf door on the upper deck.
 "To show how nlce thing the system is: the New York Herald had on Thursday the general news, at such time, from the Amerika which was 150 miles east of Cape Sable with fierce gale blowing from the west. You set you knew from day to day what we were doing although many miles out of sight.
 'Pm sending you copies of the papers, one on the outgoing and one on the returning trip. 1 came back on the same steamer.
 .'Axel O. Ihlsing."
 The papers referred to ''The Atlantic Daily News" were duly received, one bearing the date of w dnesday, November 28, the other Friday, December Fl, 1900, and each contained brief sum mary of the latest news contain. ed in our papers of those dates as received on board the ship by wireless or special marconi- grams. These can be seen by calling at this office.